The march of time and Disney-fication of fairy tales have left them fairly bipolar. There's the cute and family-friendly versions that make for good kids reading, and then there's the original versions that make for much better kids reading, plus adult reading too. Would Cinderella have been a better movie with the step-sisters cutting off bits of their feet on the theory that the prince was too stupid to notice the slipper rapidly filling with blood? I'm not saying No, but it's also worth noting the original version of the story was roughly three pages long so changes were bound to happen. Times move on and stories change with them, but the contrast of a properly-applied dark undertone in a cute story goes a long way towards making it memorable.
If a Bird Can Only Hop, Not Fly, That Makes It an Honorary Penguin
Well Dweller is a cute metroidvania adventure about birds living in a medieval kingdom where there's no proof that a spoiled young princess killed her adoptive mother, the queen. The princess loves birds, or rather the birds' feathers, and has standing orders that the peasants of the land need to gather all...
