Magic Fairy Tales: Barbie As Rapunzel is an adventure game that follows the eponymous heroine's quest to save Prince Galen, who has been bespelled by an evil witch. The game was released in 1997 by Media Station (unlike the other Barbie Rapunzel game, a movie tie-in released in 2002 and subtitled A Creative Adventure).
This game includes the following tropes:
- Badass Adorable: Rapunzel's pet birds save the day twice, first by feeding false information to an eavesdropping raven and then by stealing the Witch's broom.
- Bond Villain Stupidity: The Witch seems incapable of using her magic to directly harm someone. She can kidnap people, send them to sleep, erase their memories, but violence is not an option.
- Chain of Deals: Rapunzel wants information, a goose girl wants bread, a baker wants help decorating cakes, a bride wants wedding cake, etc. Unusually for the trope, Rapunzel doesn't meet everyone in the chain.
- The Lost Woods: The riverside forest is home to both a troll's hut and a mother dragon (complete with her extensive hoard of treasure).
- Walking the Earth: Galen is cursed to never find his way back to any place he's been before, and since he's been everywhere but over the sea, it's a pretty debilitating curse. His confusion when Rapunzel frees him implies there was some degree of amnesia involved.
- Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: In the town, Rapunzel is relieved (and presumably a little jealous) to hear that a prince married someone nearby...unfortunately, he's not the prince she's looking for.
