Poor Danny has a lot on his mind

SEGA's CRUSH3D is ready to hit 3DS in early 2012, and now you can get a feel for the story that sets the whole thing up.

The game is a dimension-squashing puzzler: main character Danny can compress — or "crush" — three-dimensional stages into two dimensions for easy passage. It's a lot simpler than it sounds: a recent CRUSH3D tutorial trailer might make things clearer.

Last we heard, CRUSH3D is down for release on10th January in North America and 13th January across Europe and Australia.