The Legend of Shangri-La: Cluste NetEnt slot review with free demo

The slot The Legend of Shangri-La: Cluster Pays (2017) NetEnt is dedicated to the mythical land of Shangri-La, somewhere in fairytale China. No wonder the bonus game has a cartoonish something happening on top of the mountain, between the “monk” and the “dragon”).

The video slot has gorgeous “fairy-tale” graphics, a solid “quirky” soundtrack… Functionally this game reminds you of the all-time “favorite” slot “Aloha”, but it has its own little twist@).

The game “The Legend of Shangri-La…” uses a 6×5 grid, 9 or more identical symbols in a cluster (horizontally and vertically) award a win. A landed “Wild” turns into an adjacent symbol and a win is paid. If at least two “identical” groups of 5 or more symbols appear, a Re – Spin is triggered), those symbols become “sticky”.

3 or more “Free Spins” symbols activate 5 FS, for “four” – 6 FS, for “five” – 7 FS, for “six” – 8 FS. If in the bonus game two “full-height FS” appear in a row and the third to the right is “half-height”, the “feature” will nudge it in the “right” direction …)

In the bonus game on the first spin two “WILDS” appear randomly, and before a new FS the flying dragon “removes” some of the “Wilds” (1-4) and immediately adds “new” ones (2-6). If the total win from the round is less than x10, +1 FS may be added.

…Earlier the slot “The Legend of Shangri-La..” used to play more generously). The slot gradually but steadily “ate up the bankroll”, not even giving decent x10 wins), so the FS didn’t come( … And on the second “run”, almost immediately three scatters fell, but the win was again only x30 and FS over ), the “Wilds” fell “crookedly” and there were no more than “four” of them.

Totally agree with the previous commenter! The Legend of Shangri-La is also one of my favorite NetEnt slots. A well-executed slot in an Oriental style, it’s a continuation of the famous Aloha!) In general, I kinda like this kind of mechanic. The slot has a good RTP and keeps its balance pretty well. Perfect for clearing a wager!)

One of my favorite slots from NetEnt. It’s probably a couple years old, maybe more, but I still don’t pass up a chance to play it when I can.
At first I thought, like, oh great, another Aloha but with different pictures. But I was very wrong. Yeah, it seemed to me that the payouts here are a bit lower than in NetEnt’s Aloha, but they’re more than compensated by slightly different bonuses than that one. Although there are lots of similarities.
The best bonus here of course is the free spins. And if I remember correctly the more skaters you get, the more spins you get. But I definitely remember that three skaters give 5 spins and five give 7. And maybe there can be more. Not sure. I really like that the minimum bet here is 10 cents or 5 rubles per spin, so with a small balance you can play for small stakes.
Once I was playing at a casino and my starting balance was $20. I thought I’d spin maybe 50 times, and if it gave nothing I’d switch to another slot. But it drags you in. And when I came to, my balance was under five dollars, and I still hadn’t seen any free spins. I was basically saying goodbye to the money and then five ! skaters popped up. Before that I’d only ever seen three. I thought it was going to give like 20 spins, but it gave only 7 (well, what can you do. At least something). The bet was 10 cents per spin. And then it started raining wins with every spin! Anyone who’s played knows that the main thing is to get as many wild symbols as possible and have them drop off after each spin. Here it turned out that a lot of them appeared right away and every spin was a big win. Long story short, the win ended up being $42. That’s x420. For NetEnt that’s not such a common event, unless you count games like Dead or Alive. After that I spun a bit more and, to be safe, cashed out just over $45.
My impression: the game is very high variance. Sometimes it ate my deposit in 10 minutes, but there were cases like the one I described. Multipliers like x100 and x200 happened but very rarely. Plus the game is pretty colorful compared to its predecessor Aloha. I recommend trying it.