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queer_scribblingAre 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
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Date: Thursday, 19 September 2024 10:35 pm (UTC)Breeds
Okay, so, you start out with one of the Sutato Breed. The prototype shown next to your collection heading under My Collection shows a Shikuro pattern for each Breed. Shikuro Sutato is a koi with a white body, fins, and tail, and the pattern is the three splotches and end segment near the tail and the head that's black.
Breeds are described as chained or progressive, depending on which game info you look at, because you have to hatch 5 of the current Breed before a mate will be sent with the next Breed's pattern. (There are 21 Breeds after Sutato, but I don't think I need to describe them all right now.) The next one I've encountered is Bux, which has box like segments down its back in its pattern color.
Collection
You start with one collection for the 16 Common types of Sutato (red, white, black, or yellow bodies, and those same options for the color patterns), but if you get a Rare type, that will have its own separate collection with different colors possible (still totaling 16).
There's a section for Awards (or Achievements outside of the game) for breeding certain color patterns. Under Sutato, there are three: Shishiro Sutato gets an Ice Award [white on white; the pattern looks like a silver/grey], and Akadai Sutato gets a Fire Award [red on red; the pattern looks more like a red-orange]. Both of those are Common, while Shiao Sutato [blue on white; the pattern is a pale blue] is Rare.
You don't get an award under the Award menu, but you do get a reward of Pearls (and Dragon Points) if you finish a koi collection. Once you've ascended all of them to dragons, you also get a reward under the Dragons menu.
Collector's Koi
All of this is parallel to the Collector's Koi, which is a section with it's own patterns that have Common and Rare collections of their own. As you build up Dragon Points, you unlock certain patterns that you can buy in the Shop, but it's also possible to encounter certain ones during certain seasons or have them show up in your inbox. Because I installed the game and starting playing on New Year's Day, I got an Ōmisoka in my inbox, which looks like it has firework bursts as its pattern. I suspect that the next holiday koi will be Kokoro, which has a heart on its head and a section around its eyes in its pattern color.
Awards
Date: Thursday, 19 September 2024 10:35 pm (UTC)2 Jan 2021: The Ice Award for breeding a Shishiro Sutato [white pattern on white].
3 Jan 2021: The Fire Award for breeding an Akadai Sutato [red pattern on red].
14 Jan 2021, 6:50 pm (EST): The Bruce Lee Award for breeding a Kikuro Linea [black pattern on yellow].
15 Jan 2021, 2:30 am (EST): The Black Box Award for breeding a Shikuro Bux [black pattern on white].
22 Jan 2021, 2:50 pm (EST): The Yang Award for breeding a Shikuro Tancho [black pattern on white].
26 Jan 2021, 10:15 am (EST): The Yin Award for breeding a Kushiro Tancho [white pattern on black].
3 Feb 2021, 1:10 am (EST): Hajiro Award for Kukuro Shusui [black pattern on black].
Achievements
Date: Thursday, 19 September 2024 10:36 pm (UTC)4 Jan 2021, 12:30 am (EST): I finished breeding all 16 of the Common Sutato koi.
- 5 Jan 2021, 1:40 am (EST): I finished ascending all 16 of the Common Sutato koi to dragons.
11 Jan 2021, 11 am (EST): I finished breeding all 16 of the Common Ōmisoka koi.
- 11 Jan 2021, ~12 pm (EST): I finished ascending all 16 of the Common Ōmisoka koi to dragons.
16 Jan 2021, 1:15 am (EST): I finished breeding all 16 of the Common Bux koi.
- 16 Jan 2021, 5:30 pm (EST): I finished ascending all 16 of the Common Bux koi to dragons.
22 Jan 2021, 11:50 pm (EST): I finished breeding all 16 of the Common Linea koi.
- 23 Jan 2021, 3 am (EST): I finished ascending all 16 of the Common Linea koi to dragons.
28 Jan 2021, 2:10 pm (EST): I finished breeding all 16 of the Common Tancho koi.
- 3 Feb 2021, 1 am (EST): I finished ascending all 16 of the Common Tancho koi to dragons.
25 June 2021, 11 am (EDT): I finished breeding all 16 of the Common Shusui koi.
- 1 July 2021, time unknown: I finished ascending all 16 of the Common Shusui koi to dragons.