Square Enix cancels Kingdom Hearts mobile game

Square Enix has announced that it is cancelling the mobile spinoff Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link. In a connection connected the game’s website, Square Enix apologized to fans who were anticipating the game. The announcement besides mentioned that Square was inactive hard astatine enactment connected Kingdom Hearts IV possibly to allay fears that this cancellation mightiness bespeak problems for different games successful the sprawling Disney video crippled series.

Kingdom Hearts: Missing-Link was announced successful 2022 alongside Kingdom Hearts IV. It was billed arsenic a mobile enactment crippled that made usage of GPS exertion to springiness players the quality to “travel the satellite without stepping outside,” according to 1 trailer. However, seemingly that extremity was a spot excessively lofty arsenic Square Enix wrote, “We determined that it would beryllium hard for america to connection a work that players would find satisfactory implicit a agelong play of time, starring america to the determination to cancel development.”

Square Enix’s connection provided penetration arsenic to the crushed for a game’s cancellation –  thing astir crippled studios bash not often offer. And portion making immoderate crippled is simply a miracle, making a palmy live-service crippled is similar asking for lightning to onslaught the caput of a pin successful a forest. After all, how many live-service games (some of them even made by Square Enix itself) were released lone to dice soon thereafter portion the concurrent subordinate counts for Fortnite, Roblox, and Call of Duty stay mostly unmoved. So it’s a uncommon and refreshing spot of honesty, particularly successful an manufacture arsenic opaque arsenic crippled development, that Square Enix was consenting to sanction the crushed for cancelling Missing-Link and I anticipation much studios travel suit successful the future. 

But it’s not each atrocious quality for Square Enix. As reported by Gematsu, Square has besides started a caller concern with the Tokyo Broadcasting System Television. Known arsenic TBS, it’s a Japanese TV and media institution which produced Takeshi’s Castle – an internationally fashionable carnal contention amusement known successful the US arsenic Most Extreme Elimination Challenge oregon MXC. TBS started its ain games part successful 2023 and with Square Enix, the 2 companies volition enactment connected a caller gaming property.