The Legend of Shangri La is a NetEnt slot game, which has a unique cluster pays ways to win along with 6 reels. With the main game theme based on monks and Buddhist culture, the game features animal characters in the main fray.
Slot layout
The Legend of Shangri La has perhaps one of the best graphics from a slot’s perspective with a wonderful background music complementing to the theme.
Reel symbols
The characters of the game are based on animals and a mixture of Japanese and Buddhist culture featuring monks and monasteries.
Base game pay tables
- Meditating Tiger: This is the highest payout symbol of the game. It gives out 9000 coins for appearing 29 times across the reels. For the symbol, appearing 28, 27, and 26 times, it offers the payouts of 8000, 7000, 6000 coins respectively.
- Meditating Elephant: The Meditating Elephant is the 2nd highest payout symbol of the game. It gives away 4000, 3500, 3000, and 2500 coins for appearing 29, 28, 27, and 26 times respectively.
- Meditating Monkey: The Meditating Monkey imaged symbol is the 3rd highest payout symbol of the game, and gives impressive payout of 4000 coins for appearing 29 times across the reels. For the symbol appearing 28, 27, and 26 times, the symbol gives out 3500, 3000, 2500 coins respectively.
- Low Payout Symbol: The low payout symbols of the game include flower, butterfly, dragonfly and fish imaged symbols. The payout scheme of these symbols starts with a flower, which is deemed as the highest payout symbol and gives away 1600 coins for appearing 29 times across the reels. However, all the other low payout symbols of the game have the same payout to that of the flower.
Bonus features
- Substitution Symbol: The substitution symbol of the game is represented with an emblem, and a question mark symbol marked on it. In the main game, it comes to transforming in becoming the adjacent symbol, which creates a possible winning combination in this popular cluster payout game. However, it cannot work out in replacing the free spin symbols.
- Free Spin: The free spin symbol of the game is a dragon imaged symbol with free spin written across. The symbol gives away free spins of different values on the order of its appearance. For an instance, the symbol gives off 5 free spins for appearing 3 times across the reels. For the symbol appearing 4 times, the free spins won are 6, for 5 times, the free spins won are 7. Finally, for the symbol appearing 6 times, the free spins won are 8. During the free spin rounds, substitution will be added randomly and will be removed after each spin. If the total win from a free spin round is 10 times, there will be winning of 1 additional free spin.
Summary
The Legend of Shangri La is a good game developed by NetEnt, who has unlocked newer versions of slot machine payouts by the means of cluster payouts. With some winning features such as random substitutions, re-spins, the game is fun to play overall.