Fledgling Heroes is a game where players flap a bird?s wings to fly it around obstacles. Its tap-to-flap action brings back memories of the tappy flapping of Flappy Bird, the paper-thin phenomenon that captured everyone’s attention in 2013 until its developer pulled it from the app store after many sleepless, guilt-ridden nights.
(That?s not a joke. That?s actually why Dong Nguyen pulled the game from the app store.)
Thankfully, Fledgling Heroes has a lot more to offer than an endless gauntlet of Mario pipes. Freshman studio Subtle Boom has thought up plenty of ways to alter the oft-copied formula and give Fledgling Heroes an identity of its own.

Right from the beginning, the game treats players to some stylized and charming animations. Combined with dialogue made up entirely of rhyming couplets, it succeeds at creating a cute, light-hearted atmosphere. The game has a storybook feel, though its story never really goes anywhere. It seems that the story only exists to set a tone and give a thin justification for why birds are flying through danger, avoiding traps, and racing dragons. The game doesn’t need the justification, but it can’t seem to help itself, plugging in narration and character motivations that don’t really do much to string the levels together. It never gets annoying, but it never really gets interesting either, so most players will likely end up ignoring it outright.
The gameplay has plenty of additions that help Fledgling Heroes di...