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The fourth game is slated for a 2012 release and will feature [[Little Red Riding Hood|Red Riding Hood]].

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* [[All Myths Are True|All Fairy Tales Are True]]

* [[Canon Welding]]: All [[Fairy Tale|fairy tales]] are true, as noted above - and they all take place in the same reality. The majority of them are actually chapters in the same story, with characters from one fairy tale appearing in another.

* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]]

* [[Everything's Sparkly with Jewelry]]: Seeing as these are fairy tale princess-related games, there are a ''lot'' of sparkly shiny objects - tiaras, scepters, jewels, carriages, you name it.

* [[Flower Motifs]]: Naturally, the castle where Princess Briar Rose is sleeping in the first game has a recurring rose motif.

** Roses also appear in the second game, along with many other kinds of flowers, but most of all there's a strong ivy motif {{spoiler|in memory of Princess Ivy}}.

* [[Haunted Castle]]: A recurring theme. Briar Rose sleeps in one in the first game. In the second, the trope is played with because {{spoiler|the Frog Prince is unaware that Princess Ivy is haunting the premises in order to watch over him}}. In the third, the castle isn't ''technically'' haunted (its inhabitants aren't dead), but it might as well be, all things considered.

* [[Hidden Object Game]]: Most of the puzzles are of this sort; they're integrated into the story, however. Instead of hunting for individual items in a picture, you hunt for the fragments which are assembled to forge an item that you actually need in the game.

** The third game adds a second optional challenge of finding all of the 'parable gems,' which enable the player to read extra stories that expand on the background of the events of the game. There are five such parables in the main game, with anywhere from three to six gems to be found for each, and a sixth in the bonus game.

* [[Locked Door]]: Several, and they can only be opened with their own specific keys.

* [[New Game+]]: Finishing the basic mode of each of the first two games unlocks a second 'hard mode,' which follows the same storyline but grants the player access to [[Bonus Material]]. Averted by the third game, however, in which there are three modes of play and you can access them all from the beginning; to access the bonus material, you must complete the game (on any difficulty level) and then play the bonus game this unlocks.

* [[The Voice]]: The woman whose recorded voice provides all the information about the current case at the start of each game. It's unclear who she is, although presumably she's some form of [[Mission Control]]. For no stated reason, it's a different voice in the third game than in the first two.

 

* [[Bookcase Passage]]: A section of wall-mounted bookshelves in the castle library opens to reveal the entrance to a shrine to Briar Rose's godmothers.

* [[Canon Discontinuity]]: A piece in one of the puzzles features Cinderella's glass slipper; but to judge by the events of the second game, Cinderella's story took place at least a few generations after Sleeping Beauty's. Of course, this can be [[Hand Wave|hand waved]] because [[A Wizard Did It|the fairy godmothers crafted all the first game's puzzles]].

** The Evil Godmother, who is never identified by any other name.

* [[Fairy Godmother]]: Part and parcel of Briar Rose's story, of course.

* [[Hair of Gold]]: Princess Briar Rose

* [[Rhymes on a Dime]]: When the spirit of the sleeping Briar Rose addresses the detective, all her dialogue is like this.

* [[You Have to Burn the Web]]: It's the only way to get past that giant-ass spider in the chapel storage room.

 

* [[All Women Love Shoes]]: Cinderella's rooms include a massive walk-in closet filled with nothing but shoes.

* [[Animal Motifs]]: The [[Swan Lake]] Princess's house has an unsurprising swan motif going on.

* [[Unfinished Business]]: It's heavily implied that [[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (novel)|Snow White]]'s ghost has some.

 

* [[All There in the Manual|All There in the Parables]]: Throughout the game, you'll collect parable gems which, when you have all of each kind, will explain how things got to be the way they are. These tell the parables of "The Rise of the Snow Queen," "The Mountain Beast," "The Golden Child," "The Tale of the Two Mirrors," and "The Snow Queen's Tale." The bonus game adds the parable of "The Witch and the Goddess."

* [[Anti-Magic]]: The Golden Child is a child born with an ability to resist all forms of magic.

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