For all of the interesting themes that can be found in the published works of Choice of Games, one of the more common ones is that of war. I suppose that's no different from a lot of forms of entertainment, but it does start to feel like I'm re-living Disney's Mulan over and over again. Somehow a plucky (and usually lowly) hero manages to upset the certainly-evil invading bad guys almost entirely on their own, and usually gets a smooch or two along the way before being declared the best person that ever was. Yes, I'm over-simplifying, but it's only because this premise is starting to get a little weary. I had hoped Runt of the Litter [$3.99] would put a new spin on the theme, with its central conceit being that you need to raise and train a war gryphon. Indeed, it does play out differently than I would have guessed, but it's hard to say if that's for the better or the worse. Anyway, the set-up. You play as a thrall in an empire entrenched in long-term war with another country. We don't learn much about them, except for the fact that they ride wyrms and are probably evil. Our team on the other hand rides gryphons, and are probably also evil if we're being completely honest about it all. But those other guys like to burn down villages, that much we know for sure, so let's just focus on their villainy for now. In our fine and just empire, there is a strict class system. At the top are the gryphon riders, the sexy and cool champions of all that is right. They deliver hot justic...