Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks Tips & Tricks

Baraka has four strategies while fighting. The first is just a basic one-on-one fight between the two of you. Use your best combos and juggles, but do not keep him in the air too long or he will strike you with his blades and knock you back. After fighting awhile, and when you damage him enough, a short intermission sequence will start, showing Baraka freeing some monks and lighting them on fire. He will then throw two monks at you that run around on fire. Do not get too close to them and pick them off. This will give you a small amount of health. Keep battling Baraka as before. Eventually, another intermission sequence will begin. After it ends, you must fight a projectile battle with Baraka. Use your hat as Kung Lao, your fireballs as Liu Kang, sand keep moving and evading. This round will not last very long. When you damage him enough, you will see yet another intermission sequence. Baraka goes berserk and gives you access to two weapons, which you will need to use against him. Pick up the weapon closest to you and start hacking away at Baraka. REMEMBER: You cannot block while holding your weapon. When he is sufficiently damaged, a Test Your Might occurs, and you must win to stun Baraka. While he is stunned, impale him on your sword. Next, pick up the other sword, damage him, and repeat the above steps. After you impale him the second time you can use your fatality and finish him.

Play as Liu Kang and stay out of Goro's reach. Launch your three stages of fireballs. It will take awhile, but sooner or later he will be ready for the fatality.

Inferno Scorpion has only three attacks; swinging his spear, his flame thrower mouth attack, and the raising of the flames. Dodge the raising of the flames and stay out of reach of his spear. Keep throwing fireballs. It will not take long before he is ready to be get another fatality done on him.

This is the easiest Boss battle of the game. Go up to Kintaro as Kung Lao and use your Spin attack. You will be able to get about a 6 hit combo on him before he will be able to hit you. Jump out of the way after you get about five or six hits in from the Spin attack. Continue to do this. It takes a good amount of health away from him each time you do it. He may hit you a few times but yo will still be in good shape for the final battle with Shao Khan.

Unlock Liu Kang and roll into him by running and holding Y. This will hurt him a lot. If he punches you while you are rolling into him, he gets hurt even more.

Use Kung Lao to get through the game and reach the final battle. The best way to defeat Shang Tsung is to block his first attack (he will be Sub Zero) and quickly throw your hat at him. Sometimes he will block it, but he usually falls down. Once he falls, run up to him and do your Spin attack (R + Y). Once he flies up into the air, back up slightly and get ready to block. Repeat the process until he changes into Johnny Cage. Get close enough to him so that he can attack you (usually with a Shadow Kick or Uppercut). Block the attack and use X repeatedly to do a fast attack to stun him. Once he is stunned, quickly do the Spin attack to launch him into the air again. As long as he is Johnny Cage, you can keep using this method. Once he changes back to Shang Tsung, go back to blocking his fire balls, throwing your hat, and using the Spin attack on him while he is down. Once he changes to Reptile, you can do a Flying Kick and if you repeatedly press X, you will do multiple kicks in a combination. As Reptile, he will not block the attack. He will disappear into a puff of smoke. As soon as he reappears, do another flying kick and repeatedly press X to do the multi-kick combo. You can do this until Shang Tsung is dead.

As Jung Lao, stay on the outside of Shao Khan, throwing your hat at him whenever you get a chance. Use the long jump to your advantage. This helps you get to the other side of the arena faster. Dodge his fireballs and keep sending the hat. It will draw a 2 to 3-hit combo on him each time. Once his health is about half way down he will pull out the hammer. Continue to fight him as done earlier. Once he goes into his Spin attack with the hammer, use your long jump to stay out of his way. Long jump as far away from him as possible, then run away from him. He will get dizzy and drop to one knee. Go up to Kintaro's head, pick it up, and hit Shao Khan in his back with it. This will take away a nice amount of health. Continue to do this until he is dead.

This trick requires a full level 3 fatality meter. As soon as the battle begins, approach one of the Tarkatans (or Demon Generals if you are fighting the one in the Foundry). Hit them with the Fatality Stunner and perform a Brutality. While in Brutality mode, keep attacking the Hellbeast with quick attacks, which will deal huge amounts of damage to it. It will be dead within a few seconds.

Go to the second door guarded by the living clay statues, the one after the thin river and next to the grappling living tree. Destroy the soldiers' shield first and throw them into the sealed tomb door. Go through the opening and follow the path to find Smoke, who will issue five missions for you to complete. Once you have completed a mission, return to Smoke and he will issue the next one. After finishing all five quests you will unlock Mortal Kombat 2 in the Kontent menu.

Before you can enter the door with a Snake Head, you must discover the three hints. To find them, grab and throw an enemy into the mouth of the Living Tree (big tree with a face). There are three Living Trees in the Living Forest. The first is before the statue that you can save on. The second is beside the door on the map where you can find Reptile's Yingyang. The third is on the right side of the door with the Snake Head.

As soon as you defeat Inferno Scorpion, he will be pulled down by Hell's Skeletons. As soon as he get burned to his head, he will put his thumb up. In Terminator 2 the T-101 wants John and Sarah Conner to burn him in lava, then puts his thumb up as soon as his head is under lava. Midway did this because they also produced the arcade game Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

At Goro's layer, just before you see Reptile, stand by the lion and look at the moon. Wait a short time to see Santa Claus and his reindeer, a witch, and a rocket ship. There is about a one minute delay between each of them.

If you use a save point, regardless if you save your health will be fully restored.

Get a "Toasty" combo rating by the announcer, then quickly press Down + Start. The phrase "Toasty 1000" will appear, giving your 1,000 experience points.

In the Wu-Shi Academy when the monks are on fire, you can easily kill them to receive experience points.

Instead of only tapping A, tap A + X to make the Test Your Might segments much easier.

Tap A, X, B, and Y during the Test Your Might segments. The meter will go up much faster.

Throw a weapon down then immediately pick it up again. It will regain all of its durability and you can keep using it. You can carry weapons with you for a long time by doing this.

Break the walls in the Soul Tombs to reveal a secret fatality. This is an area with spikes on the ceiling and about six Tarkata in the room. You can see out on the far side of the room and you need to break the four center sections of the wall.

Destroy a statue in Wu Shui academy and enter the Warrior Shrine. The Warrior Shrine is at the very start of the Wu Shui area.

Offer thee Sacrifices in the Sacrifice Room in Soul Tombs. You must go through the room that does not have a green or red symbol above it. Then, do air throws to get the Tarkatas into the spiked areas.

Find all Purple Portals and throw an enemy into each one to unlock the portal. There are only two portals to throw mobs into (one near the Evil Monastery and the other at the lower level near the climbing spot).

To unlock the Pit II, enter the portal and survive in the frozen peaks. After you enter the portal, keep killing the enemies that appear until you are told that you have won.

Start in the Foundry. Grab the axe (the one you follow while it is being made). Go into the room with the lava. You must break the wooden door to enter this area. This is in the hallway where two arrow guards break through the walls. There is a part of the wall on the left side you can break by throwing an enemy through. Jump into the lava, then jump back out. Go into the hall to the right of the save statue then smash the barrel at the end of the hall by pressing B. Go up the ramp, and take two lefts, and smash only the barrel on the right. Go to the area with the Nitara weapon. This is the small cubby to the right/straight of the top of the ramp. Smash the barrel on the right. Go to the area with the stones that drop from the ceiling and smash this barrel. It is left off the cubby. Go back to the area with the Nitara weapon and smash the left barrel. Go back to the left of the top of the ramp and smash the left barrel by pressing B. Hold B to smash the ground. You should see a green glowing area behind where the barrels where if you did everything correctly. Step into the glowing area and press B to enter survival mode.

Survival Mode level 1: Baraka, Nomads, Masked Guards in the area Liu Kang was killed in Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance.

Survival Mode level 2: Demons: Handlers, Archers, Generals, Captains in a new area.

Survival Mode level 3: 2 Oni bosses and Warlords in Goro's Lair.

Survival Mode level 4: Reptile and Bloody Skeletons at the bottom of the pit.

Survival Mode level 5: Inferno Scorpion and 3 Orochi Hellbeasts in the Armory.

Survival Mode level 6: Clay Soldiers and Brothers of the Shadow in the Living Forest.

Survival Mode level 7: Kano and Black Dragon Mercenaries in the Wastelands (the area where Raiden shocked the enemies with lighting in the pool area).

Survival Mode level 8: Goro and Kintaro in Kahn's Arena.

Survival Mode level 9: Reptile, Ermac, Scorpion, and Sub-Zero in the Warrior's Shrine.

At Goro's layer, just before you see Reptile, stand by the lion and look at the moon. Wait a short time to see Santa Claus and his reindeer, a witch, and a rocket ship. There is about a one minute delay between each of them.

If you use a save point, regardless if you save your health will be fully restored.

Get a "Toasty" combo rating by the announcer, then quickly press Down + Start. The phrase "Toasty 1000" will appear, giving your 1,000 experience points.

In the spike pit, the heads that are stuck on the spikes are those of the game's developers.

On the bridge near the end if you jump off the left side you will land on a platform which will unlock a new concept art. On the bridge, at the end will be a golden Dragon Koin. Use a projection attack to receive another new concept art. A notification will appear when you have hit it correctly.

Sometimes the area that your in may have things to kill your enemies so look around but quick cuase an enemy will hit you so dodge fast or just block.