Square Enix has introduced that it’s cancelling the cell spinoff Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link. In an announcement on the sport’s web site, Square Enix apologized to followers who have been anticipating the sport. The announcement additionally talked about that Square was nonetheless arduous at work on Kingdom Hearts IV maybe to allay fears that this cancellation would possibly point out issues for different video games within the sprawling Disney online game collection.
Kingdom Hearts: Missing-Link was introduced in 2022 alongside Kingdom Hearts IV. It was billed as a cell motion sport that made use of Global Positioning System know-how to provide gamers the flexibility to “journey the world with out stepping exterior,” in accordance with one trailer. However, apparently that objective was a bit too lofty as Square Enix wrote, “We decided that it might be troublesome for us to supply a service that gamers would discover passable over a protracted time period, main us to the choice to cancel growth.”
Square Enix’s assertion offered perception as to the rationale for a sport’s cancellation – one thing most sport studios don’t usually provide. And whereas making any sport is a miracle, making a profitable live-service sport is like asking for lightning to strike the top of a pin in a forest. After all, what number of live-service video games (a few of them even made by Square Enix itself) have been launched solely to die shortly thereafter whereas the concurrent participant counts for Fortnite, Roblox, and Call of Duty stay largely unmoved. So it’s a uncommon and refreshing little bit of honesty, particularly in an trade as opaque as sport growth, that Square Enix was prepared to call the rationale for cancelling Missing-Link and I hope extra studios comply with go well with sooner or later.
But it’s not all unhealthy information for Square Enix. As reported by Gematsu, Square has additionally began a brand new partnership with the Tokyo Broadcasting System Television. Known as TBS, it’s a Japanese TV and media firm which produced Takeshi’s Castle – an internationally well-liked bodily competitors present identified within the US as Most Extreme Elimination Challenge or MXC. TBS began its personal video games division in 2023 and with Square Enix, the 2 firms will work on a brand new gaming property.
