Samurai Princess Slot Machine

Author: GamblingSites.org | Last Updated: December 2023

Samurai Princess mixes Asian warrior tradition with a fantasy
element to create an enchanting slot game. The mystique of the
Asian warrior woman has enraptured film and television audiences
for years. In fact, Asian countries like Japan and China have
very ancient traditions in which women trained for and sometimes
went to war. Japanese warrior women from the Samurai class were
usually called Onna-bugeisha but modern western sources tend to
call them Samurai women.

The preferred weapons and martial styles of Onna-bugeisha
changed through the centuries and according to their social
positions. However, few of these women would have preferred the
katana, the long sword typically associated with the Samurai
class, because they could not match the strength and reach of
most men. A much more likely weapon for a Japanese warrior woman
would have been a naginata, a kind of short spear mounted with a
long, narrow pike-blade.

In Samurai Princess you will find a mixture of traditional
Japanese iconography and modern slot gaming concepts. Although
it uses common ambient sounds found in many similar slot games,
Samurai Princess features a stunning background song played on
the traditional Koto, the long wooden stringed instrument that
has 13 to 20 strings.

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Gameplay Features and Mechanics

Samurai Princess is 5-reel, 4-row video slot game featuring
40 pay lines. Prizes are awarded from left to right and for most
of the symbols a minimum of 3 adjacent tiles on a pay line is
required to award a prize. Prizes are denoted in credits and
multiplied by the number of credits per line and the coin value.

There are twelve symbols in the regular game. Here’s the
important details on each one.

Scatter symbol (the Warhorse)

This is the most
valuable symbol in the game. At least 3 are required to win
a prize and trigger a bonus game but up to five may appear
at a time.

Wild symbol (the Samurai Princess)

The only symbol
that awards a prize for 2 adjacent tiles on a pay line. The
Samurai Princess substitutes for all other symbols in the
game except the Scatter symbol. She pays 2, 250, 1000, and
2000 credits per pay line for 2, 3, 4, or 5 of a kind
respectively.

The Dragon

This symbol pays 200, 400, and 1000 credits
per pay line for 3, 4, and 5 of a kind.

The Crossed blades

The next highest value symbol after
the Dragon. The Daisho pays 150, 250, and 600 credits per
pay line for 3, 4, and 5 adjacent symbols. Note the two
blades are a Katana and Wakazashi, known together as Daisho.

The Lotus Blossom

This pays 100, 200, and 500 credits
per pay line when 3, 4, or 5 of these symbols line up for
you.

The “A” symbol

Pays 20, 100, and 400 credits per pay
line.

The “K” symbol

Pays 20, 100, and 200 credits per pay
line.

The “Q”, “J”, and “10” symbols

All pay 10, 80, and 200
credits per pay line.

The “9” and “8” symbols

Both pay 10, 30, and 200
credits per pay line.

The unusual distribution in prize amounts suggests that
winning 5-of-a-kind of anything is probably harder than in many
other slots games.

All of the game controls are positioned below the screen with
the playing reels.

The Auto Spin button activates a convenient list widget that
allows you to select from 5, 10, 20, 50, or 100 games with a
single click. All spins use the last active wager settings
before you click on Auto Spin. You can stop the auto spinning at
any time or the game will if your available credits drop below
the minimum required for a spin.

Your available credits are displayed to the right of the Auto
Spin button, just below the screen with the playing reels. To
the right of that number you’ll see the BET amount, which is a
multiple of Credits per line and Pay lines.

Beneath the Auto Spin button is a control for changing the
coin value. There are four possible selections: 0.02, 0.05,
0.10, and 0.25. Use the left and right arrows to adjust the
value.

To the right of this widget are five buttons that set the
number of credits you will be per pay line. Your choices are 1,
2, 3, 5, and 10.

The maximum bet amount is 400 credits, which in US currency
is $100 when the coin value is set at 0.25. However, the maximum
bet is still 400 credits if you set the coin value to 0.02, but
the US currency wager then becomes $8.00. The math is a little
confusing but you will see your available balance and wager
amount in currency below the Coin value and Credits per line
controls.

To the right of the Balance and Wagered displays is a message
window that tells you the results of your last spin.

To the right of all the other controls is a big pink Spin
button (it bears a picture of the Samurai Princess).

A blue shield to the right of the Spin button displays how
many credits were won on the last spin.

And just above the blue shield is a small blue “Pays” button
that brings up the pay table, which consists of two screens that
you scroll through horizontally using arrow controls in the
lower right-hand corner.

Triggering the Bonus Round

When 3 or more Warhorses (Scatter symbols) appear anywhere on
the screen the bonus game is triggered. You win 7 Free Spins.

During the Free Spins game a new Samurai Princess wild symbol
is added to the reels. She is facing the opposite direction of
the normal Samurai Princess.

• The new symbol is an Expanding Wild.
• The Expanding Wild appears only on reels 2 and 4.
• When it can help you win more prizes this new Wild
  symbol fills up an entire reel (4 rows).
• The normal Wild symbol may appear as a stacked symbol on
  reels 1, 3, and 5.

Each Expanding Wild symbol reveals a multiplier that is
applied to all the winning combinations it contributes to. If
two Expanding Wilds appear their multipliers are multiplied,
allowing for up to 12X the normal prize all the pay lines would
award. That means you can at most only get a X3 and a X4
multiplier, not two X4 multipliers.

Scatter symbols can still appear during the Free Spins bonus
and you may win more free spins.

Conclusion

One of the ambient touches in the Samurai Princess game is
the elegant background image behind the screen with the playing
reels. The picture represents a traditional Samurai house with a
garden. This same picture is used during the Free Spins bonus
game but it is shaded pink (the color of the Princess).

The Koto music is soothing and relaxing, making it a suitable
choice for this elegant game. Players probably will not miss the
ability to change the number of active pay lines. Samurai
Princess just gives you 40 and that is the way the game works.

The ambient music riffs are a little disconcerting. It would
have been more pleasant if they had integrated more Japanese
musical sounds into the game instead of the usual synthetic
clicks, dramatic tones, and short celebratory tones. Only the
Samurai Princess herself is accompanied by a suitable Koto
excerpt.

The bonus game increases the volume of the background music,
making it a little more exciting and fun to listen to. But if
you win a lot of credits you’ll feel like you were thrown out of
a sophisticated Asian lounge in to the middle of a kiddie arcade
when the cheap pipe organ plays. It’s just a weird combination
of ambient sounds that suggests the game designers rushed the
game to market with as many off-the-shelf features as they could
squeeze into it.

Overall the game is worth playing because it offers some
interesting developments. As long as a slot game keeps you on
your toes without impoverishing you it should be fun to play for
at least a while.

Samurai Princess delivers on that promise even if it doesn’t
exceed expectations.