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Tronomics
Since: Sep, 2016
7th Jun, 2020 04:37:45 PM
I figured it out! The games were called the Magic Tales series, and the first game you mentioned was called The Princess and the Crab.
I had a children's game about 15 years ago. I can't remember the exact OS, but it was windows and couldn't have been newer than XP. I had two installments of this 'franchise'. It was a point and click game, but each screen was another 'scene', so you could only move forward.
Each installment started with a brother and sister with their grandfather. They were anthropomorphic, and were either rabbits or mice. One installment started with them making pasta sauce in a kitchen, and another with them eating ice cream on a park bench. The grandfather would then start telling a story.
The first story was about a princess who had no interest in princessly things, much to the dismay of her father (I remember there was a scene in a garden where they sang, and her father said "Why don't you join the other girls? They're putting on a play!"). At one point she asks her father to learn to use a sword, and possibly a violin? (in this scene they were watching people make wine, which her father offered to teach her. At the prospect of learning swordplay, her father said something about a sewing needle instead). She goes on an adventure, which I think was to rescue a prince? I remember she encountered a chubby cartoony dragon with two heads and bib. At the end she gets married and she and her husband go off on an adventure on a magic carpet.
The second story was of a boy. It started with him and his family in their house, and the mother was making pies. She placed a pie on an open windowsill to cool, and a witch came and ate the pie. She then insisted on staying in the house, eating all the pies she wanted unless they told her a story she'd never heard before, which was far easier said than done. So the boy went on a journey to find such a story. I remember there was one part where he slept under a tree, which turned out to be home to fairies. Eventually he returns home and tell the story of his adventures to the witch, who promptly leaves.
I can't remember many details other than that, but I'd love to find this game, cause it seems pretty nice, from what I remember.
Edited by xrainxofxbloodx