Revealed contiguous during the somewhat underwhelming Disney and Marvel Games Showcase, Illusion Island is simply a caller 2D, animated platformer being developed by DLaLa Studios and which seems to beryllium heavy inspired by the caller (and fantastic) animated Mickey Mouse cartoon shorts. And weirdly, this caller platformer volition beryllium exclusive to the Nintendo Switch.

Illusion Island is simply a four-player co-op platformer that stars the iconic Disney characters Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy…the uh, Goofy. According to an interrogation with IGN, this caller platformer is built connected the “foundational elements” of a antecedently canceled crippled that Dlala Studios were besides developing. That game, which was ne'er officially announced, was besides planned to beryllium a co-op game, featuring 2D, hand-drawn art, and celebrated Disney characters. That each sounds a batch similar this caller Illusion Island. That archetypal crippled was canned successful 2016 earlier being officially announced, but present it seems it lives connected successful immoderate form.

“Is it precisely the aforesaid game? It’s not,” said Disney VP of Disney, Pixar, and 20th Century Games Luigi PrioreIs. “Is it [developed by] Dlala? Yes. Are they bringing their creativity to it? Yes. Is it the aforesaid characters? Yes. It didn’t enactment then, but the situation changed.”

While today’s showcase wasn’t the astir exciting, it is an denotation that Disney seems much invested successful games aft implicit fractional a decennary of mostly sitting things out, with the objection of a fewer mobile games and Kingdom Hearts. Illusion Island is an illustration of Disney seemingly going backmost to ideas that didn’t marque it and reviving them for a 2nd accidental astatine life. Based connected what we saw successful the D23 trailer, Illusion Island looks beauteous and could extremity up being a fantastic platformer featuring the world’s astir celebrated animated mouse. And for the devs astatine Dlala, it seems similar they yet get to marque a crippled they had been wanting to marque for years. So that’s nice. Illusion Island comes retired sometime adjacent twelvemonth connected Nintendo Switch. No different console ports person been announced and nary circumstantial merchandise day is known beyond 2023.