Coherent Worlds: Researching games with fairy tale elements

The Faery Tale Adventure is a game by Electronic Arts. It uses a number of fairy tale tropes in its environment/characters and narrative that provide a fairy-tale like world for the player.
The game starts off with an introductory cut scene in the style of a fairy tale story.

The player takes control of one of three brothers, a theme found in many Grimm tales. The three brothers are to find a magical artifact that will save their home town from the forces of evil.
If the player dies as the eldest brother he will find himself playing as the next brother and so on. Each brother having their own personality and attributes.

The evil force that the player must contest against is an evil wizard/necromancer. An evil being able to cast magic is very common an antagonist in fairy tales, though it is more often a witch or sorceress whom the protagonist must face. Though in this game there is also a witch that the player must defeat

The player often faces common fantasy/fairy tale enemies as obstacles in his quest. Dragons, trolls, ogres, all common antagonists in fairy tales make up the ranks of enemy forces.

During the player's quest to find and use the magical amulet to stop the evil necromancer side-quests and other problems arise that the player must solve. For example the player must help a king find his missing daughter. Like in fairy tales where seemingly unnecessary detours occur to the main character who then benefits from doing the right thing, for example in The Golden Bird a Prince (one of three brothers in fact!) starts out trying to find out who is stealing his father's apples and ends up getting married and going on a long adventure.

The game also narrates what the player is doing making the game itself seem a lot more like a story book. The player also makes use of deals with magical animals which itself is a fairly common theme found in fairy tales.