MORTAL KOMBAT: SHAOLIN MONKS SURVIVAL MODE WALK-THROUGH/ FAQ's Written by metalgearsonic Vers. 1.0 Contents A: Legal Disclaimer B: About Survival Mode C: Unlocking/ finding Survival Mode D: The levels E: Closing F: Updates ============================================================================== A: Legal Disclaimer ============================================================================== This FAQ/ Strategy Guide was written solely by me, metalgearsonic, and all chracters mentioned or used are owned by Midway Games. This guide is to be used on Gamefaqs.com only and used with their kind permission. All tips and advice used in this guide were found through gameplay expirience, no otherhelp was given from any outside agency or distributor. ============================================================================== B: About Survival Mode ============================================================================== Survival Mode is one of the hardest things to unlock in a game. Even then, once it's been unlocked, it lives up to it's name of Survival. It will make you or break you, or even make you a little bit mad :-) At first, Midway were going to have a Boss Rush Mode, as revealed in the Game Over secret messages, but wasn't included. Instead, Survival Mode takes its place. I still think why it's so well hidden if its there to be played... maybe to save people from themselves....meh, anyway, on with the guide.... ============================================================================== C: Unlocking/ Finding Survival Mode ============================================================================== Follow these steps and you should find the entrance to Survival Mode 1: Grab an enemy and throw him into the left hand wall in the Foundry corridor (This should reveal a secret room) 2: Grab the axe from the water area. 3: Go to the orc filled tunnel and O smash the barrel at the end 4: Go up the ramp in the lobby and turn left onto the landing. 5: Go to the end and smash the barrel closest to you with O button (smash all the barrels using the O button for this) 6: Go back and into the small room with the weapon on the floor and smash the barrel at the back of the room 7: Go into the rock-crusher corridor and smash the barrel at the end 8: Return to the weapon room and smash the other barrel in there. 9: Go to the landing and smash the last barrel. 10: If the entrance hasn't appeared yet, do another smash on the spot 11: Push R2 to go in. *Serious credit to whoever discovered this..... ============================================================================== D: The Levels ============================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Follow this guide carefully and you should be alright, just make sure you keep retrieving the sword at the end of each level, it makes the next one that much easier, trust me on this. If you are having difficulty with the Level Bosses rather than the minions, read my Boss FAQ for this game as well, all listed and covered so you'll know what attacks to to prepare yourself for. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Level 1 Location: Wu Shi Academy Enemies: 9 (6 Tarkata/2 Masked Guards/Baraka) Difficulty: 5/10 For the Tarkata, I recommend simply throwing them out of the arena to save time and health, but if your being overpowered by them then uppercuts are your best bet. The Axe should still be with you so impale Baraka, then go nuts beating the life out of him. Serves him right for being so damn hard with those Soul Swords and all......After the initial enemies are dead, 2 Tarkata and 2 Masked Guards appear. Throw the Tarkata out of the arena, then do the same to the guards, seeing as you can simply block them then drop them. Sorted. The only problem is, more likely than not is you will lose the axe. If not, keep it for the next level. *Note: When the level boss is dead, you can use Fatalities and all that on the regular enemies, so sometimes is best to kill the Boss first. Make your way to Level 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Level 2 Location: Unknown Enemies 18 (6 Demon Archers/6 Demon Captains/3 Demon Generals/3 Demon Handlers) Difficulty: 4/10 No Bosses are present here so use any -alities if you need to. The wave pattern is the same, 6 enemies at once: 1 General/Handler and 2 Archers/Captains. 3 waves of this. Once any of those waves dies, EG you kill a general, it will regenerate at once, so go for whichever is your most difficult foe and use 3 fatalities to get rid of them and leave the easier ones. There are 2 weapons at the sides as well, so slice, dice, and don't be nice :-) Keep the sword for Level 3 though it might just come in handy, seeing as the axe WILL have run down and broken from over-use. Survive and advance..... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Level 3 Location: Goro's Lair Enemies: 14 (12 Oni/ 2 Oni Warlords) Difficulty: 3/10 The small Oni come in 4 at once, so be grateful you kept that sword! Or, alternatively, impale one of the Warlords with a well-aimed throw, and get it back later. Yea, do that. Impale a Boss, throw the mini-Oni onto the fires in the corner to save time (and make sure they're all finished first), kill the impaled Warlord, then do the same to his brother. Wait and avoid his attacks, or go in for the kill! Whatever you prefer. Retrieve the sword for Level 4. Level 4 awaits.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Level 4 Location: The Pit Bottom Enemies: 7 (6 Bloody Skeletons/Reptile) Difficulty: 4/10 Throwing is your best friend here. Throw the skeletons onto the spikes, sorted. To deal with Reptile, Impalement with swords never gets boring.....Just as easy as the last level. In fact, just this morning, I had a no-damage Level 4 where I impaled Reptile, cornered him in the bottom-right corner and used Bicycle Kick repeatedly so he had no chance to attack! Magic. Get the sword and move on Time to move on.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Level 5 Location: The Foundry Enemies: 4 (Inferno Scorpion/3 Orochi Hellbeasts) Difficulty: 6/10 You will still have the sword by now, so impale Inferno Scorpion, then kill him to death.....wait a minute....anyway....once he's down, impale the Orochi Hellbeasts, but only throw the sword at them if you are facing the left or right side walls, otherwise you might miss and throw it into the lava or out of the stage at the front, and then you'll cry and give up because you liked that weapon so much...never happened to me....>_> anyway, the Hellbeast is a slow creature so avoiding his attacks arent hard. Scorpion is the real threat, but because you took him down earlier he's not a problem anymore. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Level 6 Location: The Living Forest Enemies: 15 (9 Clay Soldiers/ 6 Brother of Shadow) Difficulty: 8/10 I hate this one......Mutalities are your best bet. Stay near the spikes at the far left and throw the BOS into them to make life better. If you're lucky a clay soldier might be eaten by the tree so stay near there for now. Once the BOS have all been killed, use fist of ruin to destroy the soldiers' shields. Now either beat them up or use the spikes, whatever is best at the time. Avoid the fire near the spikes, but enemies are prone to it as well, so be creative during the violence. The sword WILL break here, so you'll have to rely on your fists and feet to help you here. Typical that it breaks before Level 7...... Last this long and you'll reach level 7.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Level 7 Location: Wastelands Enemies: 9 (Kano/8 Black Dragon Mercenaries) Difficulty: 9/10 I hate this one even more......Kill Kano. Avoid his cannon ball move*, then pound on him like no tomorrow. If his cronies get close, then throw them away, I've found they're more vulnerable against throws rather than punches. Once Kano is finally dead, use whatever -alities are available to keep this level as short as possible. Avoid the several fires around the edges and try to get some Mercs between you and Kano. That way, they'll get hurt and not you. It's the only fool-proof method I've found for this level so far. *Do this by keeping close to him or throwing him into his cronies. Onwards and upwards.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Level 8 Location: Kahn's arena Enemies: 2 (?) (Goro/Kintaro) (!) Difficulty: Not as bad as you think, 5/10 This to me is the easiest fight. Just like when you fight them normally, I use fist of ruin, jump over whoever, fist of ruin, jump to their other side, fist of ruin, etc. By jumping you avoid their attacks and keep hurting them at a regular rate. Once Goro goes down, repeat your attack process. Easy fight against 2 of the strongest characters......bit feeble, i wish i had more of a challenge.....oh crap, i spoke too soon.... *No updates for this one, it works every time :-) **I've also noticed if you stand perfectly still and close to them, without attacking, they don't attack you at all. Maybe you could use that to your advantage. Almost there..... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Level 9 Location: Warrior Shrine Enemies: 4 (Reptile/Ermac/Sub-Zero/Scorpion) Difficulty: MUMMY! (10/10) OH ******* HELL........if you beat this you can call yourself an MK champ. Go after the ninjas in the given order, since Reptile has no defence, and then you'd be taking down Ermac, the biggest threat of the lot. His psychic attacks will break you if you haven't faced him in story mode***. 4 VS 1 is a big deal, but if you break the statues at the back, they all have medium health boosts inside, but use them sparingly. Liu Kang's Bicycle Kick is a Godsend, go nuts with it, as it's the only way I beat Survival Mode with it.....Good luck.. And may the For...*swish* *splat* "GET OVER HERE!" Oh crap......I'll be back in a bit..... If you've done it, then congratulations! Your reward is an extra 8% game completion and the satisfaction you beat everything that Midway threw at you!* *Trust me, you'll love the satisfaction and can show off to your mates later... **Bet you wish you had the sword for this one, right? No-one has given me any tips for this level yet, so Bicycle Kick is still your best bet, I'm afraid... ***Yes, get over to the warrior shrine and take down ermac by himself before you go into this thing, it gives great practice in what to expect from him... (minus floating rocks) ============================================================================== E: Closing ============================================================================== If anyone finds some fool-proof methods or tricks then please E-mail me. Thanks to: Me I wrote this thing and had to beat all 9 levels to do so.... Gamefaqs and its members for reading and hosting this.... Midway for making a class game.... No thanks to: My sister for stealing the last muffin in the box.... Ermac for using cheap psychic moves in Level 9 Clay Soldiers for having shields Copyright (C) metalgearsonic ============================================================================== F: Updates ============================================================================== Vers 1.0 : Made the basic copy, all levels covered. Vers 1.1 : Updated each level with new strategy/ies : Made good use of the sword to ease the difficulty Vers 1.2 : Read in a Topic by Hunteristhegame2 that you can keep the Axe throughout the whole of Survival Mode by impaling all enemies, as this refreshes the 'life' of the Axe. Tried it out, it works out. Good work, Hunteristhegame2 :-) Makes Levels 7 and 9 easier than before.