YMMV / 9 Monkeys of Shaolin

• Awesome Music: The main theme, mixing traditional Chinese instruments and electric guitars, perfectly underscores the epic and action-packed scope of the game.
• Cliché Storm: The game touches so many tropes from classic wuxia and lifts plenty of ideas made popular by Shaw Brothers back in the 70s, but somehow it all works excellently.
• Complete Monster: Fuudo is the ruthless Wukou leader who led his army on a Rape, Pillage, and Burn campaign across territories around the Sea of Japan. Learning of the Heshibi Jade and its powers, Fuudo had his forces invade hero Wei Cheng's hometown to seek the jade, Fuudo later invades the Shaolin Temple which took Wei Cheng in, ordering a massacre of the peaceful monks before forcefully obtaining the Jade's second half, which he then covets in a ritual, unleashing an army of restless spirits which he intends to use to Take Over the World.
• Demonic Spiders:
  • The highest-ranked Samurai foes hits like a truck, can tank plenty of hits, and pose a serious challenge when they corner Wei Cheng (which happens rather frequently).
  • Teleporting ninja enemies have a habit of attacking Wei Cheng when he's on bridges or on platforms. It gets easier later when Wei Cheng gains the powers to absorb enemies closer to him with his qi, allowing him to grab and take down those ninja foes as soon as they reappear, but they're still a headache for players who's not adept with executing their qi moves.
• Goddamned Bats: Enemies with ranged attacks, such as blowpipe-wielding mooks, riflemen and archers. They're usually stationary, but their shots can distract Wei Cheng when he's being ganged up by other foes. Also they tend to stay at hard-to-reach areas and can only be defeated by deflecting their attacks.
• Special Effects Failure: The game tends to have clipping errors every now and then, and it's obvious the texture used for water surfaces (when Wei Cheng battles enemies on water) is recycled a few times. Notably for rooftops - mooks killed while on roofs would occasionally clip through the surface.

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