If you live outside of New Zealand, when you think “kiwi", you’re likely thinking of a brown skinned fruit with a wonderful green interior. The other (and likely less delicious) kiwi is a flightless bird around the size of an average chicken that also happens to be the national symbol of New Zealand. In Fly Kiwi Fly, you play as a small yellow kiwi who wants to fly, much like the unrelated YouTube hit video “Kiwi!" (which you should really watch if you haven’t seen it before).
Motivated by watching the Space Shuttle on TV, you take flight and somehow earn money by constantly jumping off a cliff. This money is then spent on upgrades in the in-game shop that will allow you to jump higher off the start, briefly glide, or even rocket forward among other things. Here’s some video of very early gameplay without many upgrades yet:
I’m not sure what it is about these flight games, but I always seem to hopelessly get sucked in to them. I probably sunk hours in to unlocking everything in Pig Air [99¢], an extremely similar game where you play as a pig launching off of a silo. Fly Kiwi Fly should be available very soon, and is a fun game to keep an eye out for if the idea of tricking out a kiwi with rockets and wings interests you.
