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Are there important things I should be doing? Yes.
Did I decide to take advantage of the new phone actually having space for a frivolous app? Yeah.
Is it possible that I'm a smidge embarrassed by how much I like the game so far? Maybe.
It doesn't take a lot of skill, really. It's not fast paced. You play as a koi, level up by eating different food items in the pond (to increase your speed and agility), and if you eat certain food items, you can make gems that will expand the pond (introducing new food). Once you get the last pond expansion, the koi levels up to a dragon, and really, if you do it once, you've probably covered most of what will happen in the game. The part that changes and keeps most people interested on repeating the whole cycle is that you can breed your koi with those introduced in the game and collect the different patterns. (Your rarity stat influences whether the mate will be common or rare.)
Granted, this depends on whether you have an empty slot on your egg list, which can only hold eight eggs, so it's entirely possible that your koi can ascend to a dragon without a mate being introduced to the pond. (One workaround to this is to ascend the koi on your 'My Koi' list, which only starts out with three slots, because dragons have a separate list, and an empty koi slot means you can hatch an egg. Or you can buy additional koi slots with the in-game currency [pearls].)
Did I find out that I'm a few years too late to trying this game, so most info is aimed at Zen Koi 2? Unfortunately. I think Zen Koi came out in 2015 and Zen Koi 2 left beta in 2018, maybe? Most content about Zen Koi seems to be dated to 2016 at any rate.
Anyway. This is the landing post for personal chatter about the game, which will be in the comments. I highly doubt that I'll be playing this on an aggressive collector approach.
Game started: 1 Jan 2021 || Originally posted on Pillowfort: 2 Jan 2021 || Archived here on Dreamwidth: 19 Sept 2024
Did I decide to take advantage of the new phone actually having space for a frivolous app? Yeah.
Is it possible that I'm a smidge embarrassed by how much I like the game so far? Maybe.
Zen Koi
It's Zen Koi from LandShark Games.It doesn't take a lot of skill, really. It's not fast paced. You play as a koi, level up by eating different food items in the pond (to increase your speed and agility), and if you eat certain food items, you can make gems that will expand the pond (introducing new food). Once you get the last pond expansion, the koi levels up to a dragon, and really, if you do it once, you've probably covered most of what will happen in the game. The part that changes and keeps most people interested on repeating the whole cycle is that you can breed your koi with those introduced in the game and collect the different patterns. (Your rarity stat influences whether the mate will be common or rare.)
Granted, this depends on whether you have an empty slot on your egg list, which can only hold eight eggs, so it's entirely possible that your koi can ascend to a dragon without a mate being introduced to the pond. (One workaround to this is to ascend the koi on your 'My Koi' list, which only starts out with three slots, because dragons have a separate list, and an empty koi slot means you can hatch an egg. Or you can buy additional koi slots with the in-game currency [pearls].)
Did I find out that I'm a few years too late to trying this game, so most info is aimed at Zen Koi 2? Unfortunately. I think Zen Koi came out in 2015 and Zen Koi 2 left beta in 2018, maybe? Most content about Zen Koi seems to be dated to 2016 at any rate.
Anyway. This is the landing post for personal chatter about the game, which will be in the comments. I highly doubt that I'll be playing this on an aggressive collector approach.
Game started: 1 Jan 2021 || Originally posted on Pillowfort: 2 Jan 2021 || Archived here on Dreamwidth: 19 Sept 2024
