9 Monkeys Of Shaolin Review (Steam)

The true rebirth of iconic beat ’em up genre in vein of old-school video games! As a simple Chinese fisherman Wei Cheng you have to avenge the death of your friends and family slaughtered in a pirate raid at your peaceful village.

Pros:

• Decent graphics.
• Download size.
• Steam achievements.
• Controller support.
• Graphics-fullscreen, resolution, v-sync, anti-aliasing, shadows, motion blur, post-processing quality and graphics presets.
• Four difficulties-novice, Warrior, master, and legend.
• Can rebind controls.
• Can skip the cutscenes.
• Opening tutorial pop-ups.
• Action fighting gameplay.
• Co-op mode-local or online. You can turn friendly fire on or off.
• Combo counter.
• Combat feels heavy and meaty. You can do quick, slow, hard attacks, dodge attacks, and fly into enemies to start an attack or block to deflect.
• The main hub for level select, weapons, and gear along with setting up Co-op play.
• End of the level breakdown on performance.
• Skill tree-kick/slash and thrust trees to unlock new attacks and buffs. You will eventually unlock new trees for new attack styles.
• World map level select.
• Can sometimes choose which missions to take.
• Weapons-they give buffs and/or buffs and each one is unique and can be freely equipped.
• Skill points are handed out as rewards and used for the skill trees.
• Some really nice locations.
• Secret Collectibles to find which in turn unlock secrets/cheats for the game like big head mode, new costumes, etc.
• Green tea-used to heal. Press once for a one time use or hold to fill up all the way.
• Enemies give a tell when shooting or doing a heavy attack.
• Breakable objects in the world like crates or chopping down trees.
• Big boss fights.
• Fast loading times.

Cons:

• Rebind only shows the keyboard but does recognize the controller.
• The mouse cursor stays on the screen when using the controller.
• How to play is just a picture of the controller layout.
• Slow starter.
• Combat can get tedious when dealing with multiple enemies.
• Can be hard to judge deflecting shots.
• Green tea pickups don’t carry over from level to level.
• Slow animation for drinking green tea.
• Bullet sponge boss fights.