Of all the different games available at Fortune Frenzy Casino, here’s a favourite that I like to come back to from time to time: Koi Princess by NetEnt. This cutesy looking slot is much more than meets the eye. Besides delivering a steady stream of wins in the base game, Koi Princess is also packed to the brim with features. You’ll find four random features in the base game, two extra spin games, a coin win, a bonus wheel feature; and prizes up to 1,000x your stake. We better get to it then!
Game Basics
Koi Princess is powered by NetEnt. Let’s cover the basics quickly: The game has 5 reels, 20 paylines. Wagers are accepted from 20p to £200 per spin, so it should cover players of all budgets and preferences. There are eight symbols in the base game. In ascending order of value, these are 10, J, Q, K, A, Gold Coins, Green Idol and Orange Idol. You can win up to 300 coins here, but these wins average around five to 20.
Bonus Features
There are EIGHT features, guys! First off, there are four random features that may appear during your base game. The game will present three koi fish: click on one of them to reveal which feature you’d play next. The four possible random features are:
- Random Wilds: Four to nine extra wilds are added to your reels, along with one free re-spin.
- Wild reels: Two to five reels will be completely covered in wilds; again, you get one free re-spin
- 5-hit feature: One extra spin with a guaranteed 5-in-a-row win involving a randomly chosen symbol
- Bonus activation: One of the following four bonus games are triggered. You’d otherwise hit these by scoring three or more scatter symbols on the reels
The Sure Win Extra Spins features starts off with 10 extra spins. Each spin is configured such that, every win will be at least the same as the largest amount won during this feature (except for the 1st extra spin). On top of that, you’ll also get one extra overlay wild for the first five extra spins. That should set the bar for prizes quite nice and high. The last five extra spins get an extra random wild symbols too. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time, hoping to score a win that is even larger than before.
The Wild Reels Extra Spins feature also gives 10 extra spins. This time, you’ll get random reels covered with overlay wild symbol. The random reel changes for each extra spin and you can technically have the all five reels covered in wild reels.
The simplest feature of all is the Coin Win. This gives you a random cash prize between 15 to 30x your stake. Then, there’s the bonus wheel. The Bonus Wheel is a three-tiered wheel with 12 different prizes scattered around it. You’ll roll the dice and collect cash multipliers, double up bonuses as well as special arrows symbols that move you onto the next tier. If you reach the centre of the bonus wheel, you’ll get a jackpot coin win! That’s at least 25x multiplier and up to 1,000 times your stake!
Now, all of these features deliver tremendous winning potential. You’d always end each feature longing for more. Well, turns out you can have them more often! If you activate the bonus bet, you’ll increase the probability of awarding a random feature (by about three times, according to my best guess), boosts the values on the bonus wheel and get bigger prizes in the Sure Win extra spins.
The payout percentage also improves slightly, from 96.0% to 96.2%. However, this comes at the cost of twice your original wager. Your “profit margin” on base game wins shrink by quite a bit, so you’d be counting almost entirely on bonus feature wins.
How Does The Game Perform?
In case you aren’t familiar with anime/oriental culture, the reels are actually full of lucky symbols from the far east. There’s the three lucky coins, three-legged money toad, the Fu lion and for extra measure, Princess Myoko cheering you on. There’s subtle music playing in the background too, so you’d feel like you’re playing in a Japanese zen garden.
And Finally…
The only reason I keep coming back to Koi Princess is because it offers so many different ways to win. I’m constantly surprised by a new type of win and definitely never bored. Sometimes I’d get small but nice top-ups to my bank balance, while other times, I’d hit the Wild Reels Extra Spins and pocket a mega win that’d tide me over for days.
