First Epic Mickey 3DS Screenshots - It's a 2D Affair

Disney has revealed the first snaps of the 3DS Mickey game; a tribute to classic platformers starring the world's most popular mouse.

Disney Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion takes a slightly different approach to its bigger console brothers. Have a peak at the screenshots below and be invited into a classic 2D style world inspired by Sega Genesis title Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse. The 3DS outing returns to this fabled castle, which has now fallen into a wasteland in the Epic Mickey setup: a world filled with 80 years of forgotten Disney characters, theme park attractions and now video games.

You'll be fending off classic villain from Castle of Illusion, Mizrabel who also ends up as in this vintage place. Use your brush to fend off this familiar face and save your fellow 'toons!

Despite the change in gameplay design, Mickey is still armed with a paint brush, and this lets players paint rough versions of objects on the touchscreen and pop these up to the top screen to become usable objects - much like the canon in Disney's example:

What do you think of Power of Illusion? What do you think of the classic Mickey games?