Koi Princess

NetEnt’s manga-style slot delivers its players straight into the land of anime with Koi Princess, a slot that takes you away to the exotic Far East and delivers you a slot bursting with extras.

They include a host of base game treats and a bonus bet option that would turn the head of any princess koi/coy or not!! She certainly looks more bashful than the ladies on the Gaelic Luck slot – but then they hail from the Emerald Isle not the land of the Rising Sun.

Look and feel

This slot is pervaded by an atmosphere of chilled calm, thanks in part to the setting of the game, an animated waterfall soothes you in the background of the reels with a temple making up the setting.

On the left of the reels is our manga princess, big-eyed and literally coy and shuffling about nervously or jumping and clapping if the game’s going your way! She reminds us of the girl in the Cleo’s Wish slot, but it can’t be her as she’s Egyptian.

The Koi of the game’s title must refer to those gigantic fish that are traditionally found in the peaceful waters of the Far East. The reels are set in a regal frame with gold and banners and graphically this game is top-notch, with NetEnt putting together a slick looking slot.

The background music is traditional-style, high melodic tones with a few extra electronic bleeps thrown in for good measure!

Gameplay

Koi Princess is a 3 rows, 5 reel and 20 pay-line slot (just like its sister game the Eggomatic slot) with some pretty coy styling!

The high value icons are straight out of the oriental playbook with the highest value icon being the profile of our anime friend the Koi Princess, then an orange dragon, a jade turtle and coins on ribbons. The lower value icons are the Ace through 10 of the card deck jazzed up in silk and gold.

The game’s Wild is a stylised wave and the bonus icon is a golden dragon.

Koi Princess comes with a Bonus Bet option that which allows you to up your likelihood of triggering the desirable bonus and base game side games but watch out, this will double the cost of your bet!

So what of all these extras? Well, the appeal of Koi Princess for those who aren’t just massive manga lovers is that this slot comes with plenty of base game magic. At random¸ you could activate, 5 Hit, Random Wilds, Wild Reels, or setting the Bonus Game in action! These are picked by our princess by a wheel that pops out of the water under the reels.

5 Hit sets you off with a free spin and then at random, you will be gifted a 5 icon win!
Random Wilds is also generous with a free spin and then between 4 and a calm-cracking 9 Wilds being overlaid onto the reels.

Wild Reels will have breaking out of contemplative calm when you’re hit up with a free spin and then a minimum of 2 and a seriously generous 5 reels going TOTALLY Wild!

And last and definitely not least, is the Bonus feature. If you get the chance to pick the bonus it will save you having to land 3 bonus icons on reels 1, 3 and 5 to activate the bonus feature fun!

Spinning all that gold!

Once you’ve entered the bonus feature, a wheel pops out of the water at bottom of the screen and turns to pick one of four features including Sure Win Free Spins (my favourite), Wild Reels Free Spin, Bonus Wheel or everyone’s good old pal, the coin win.

The Sure Win Free Spin gives you a generous ten free spins with a guaranteed win- not bad and this amount will be the biggest so far in the feature which could be very lucrative.

Wild Reels Free Spin again awards ten free spins, but this time up to a crackers five reels could go totally Wild- exciting stuff!

The Bonus Wheel will give you a wheel of treats to win. These include the two above side games or a coin win- what’s not to like?

The Coin Win does what you’d expect, it gives you a coin reward to add you to your pot of dosh.

Conclusion

I had to admit that I found it hard to trigger some of the random games, but the bonus feature with its generous ten free spins sets you off on a lucrative track. The game’s styling is super smart and certainly worth a visit to NetEnt’s manga vision of the Far East.