In an announcement on both the Japanese and Global Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link official accounts on X, the Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link development team has shared a message on the decision to cancel the development of the game.

You can read the full announcement message below:

While the news may be difficult the message does reassure fans that the Kingdom Hearts series will continue, and that the team is hard at work on Kingdom Hearts IV. 

How do you feel regarding Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link's cancellation? Let us know in the comments below!

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That's really disappointing, but I hope they find some other way of giving us the story that was going to be in the game. Like a Back Cover-style movie maybe.

Being a fan of this franchise is hell. Literal hell. 

Im shocked but not suprised. Never good for a franchise to have a developed game get cancelled.

oh. oh well. we all new live service games were a dying breed

Not surprised. I always thought it would be difficult to sell a project like that to people outside diehard fans. It's dissapointing, but I hope we will get KH4 news soon

I'm disappointed for sure, but definitely not surprised. I'd been wondering for a while if Missing-Link was even still in development, and had a feeling they would be pulling the plug. Hopefully we'll get to see the game's story in some kind of format, though.

Woke up to the news and now I’m devastated. My day is ruined.

4 hours ago, Hoshiko Hikari said:

That's really disappointing, but I hope they find some other way of giving us the story that was going to be in the game. Like a Back Cover-style movie maybe.

I really, really hope they do this. 😭

As an OG Kingdom Hearts fan I'll say this is definitely for the best. Plus, it was a HUGE mistake trying to make this game on the Mobile Game in first place. Nomura and this development team should've know that Missing-Link on the phone was never going to work. Missing-Link should've been on the console in the first place just like Final Fantasy 14 Reborn. I'm honestly not sad about this at all. After the incredibly slow and weak progress of Unchained X and Union Cross I consider this good news, in my opinion. 

13 hours ago, Hoshiko Hikari said:

That's really disappointing, but I hope they find some other way of giving us the story that was going to be in the game. Like a Back Cover-style movie maybe.

 

9 hours ago, Allwil13 said:

I'm disappointed for sure, but definitely not surprised. I'd been wondering for a while if Missing-Link was even still in development, and had a feeling they would be pulling the plug. Hopefully we'll get to see the game's story in some kind of format, though.

 

9 hours ago, Anra7777 said:

Woke up to the news and now I’m devastated. My day is ruined.

I really, really hope they do this. 😭

Yeah a Back Cover style movie is our best chance now, assuming they try to salvage the story from the game.

Either that or maybe they canceled Missing Link, to make a side story mainline game using the ML story?

My reaction the instant I saw the newsflash on my cellular telephone this morning,

Edited May 14May 14 by SoraDaxjer28

Smart of them to do this. I feel like this game would've been a colossal failure financially. Hopefully the content mined from the beta build is released now that the game has officially been canned.

Edited May 15May 15 by NeoLimitForm

I do hope they do something with whatever story they were planning to include in this. The story had been the best part of the games taking place in eras past. Would be a shame if it never sees the light of day.

I'm saddened by this but hardly not surprised. The lack of news of Missing Link for 3 years straight, getting delayed 3 times, along with Square Enix being mum about its development cycle.

I honestly think it was for the best since Kingdom Hearts IV has already enough story and characters so It honestly didn't need more unexplained lore and new characters to make the series feel bloated, because lets be honest, Missing Link was going to bleed into KHIV the way the mobile games (X/Union X) did for Kingdom Hearts III, and possibly overshadow what was already built up like it did in KH3. Hopefully Nomura and Square learn their lesson from this cause while I don't mind new KH games before the numbered titles, I just don't want Nomura to be overly ambitious to have new KH games and lore relegated on a mobile device that involve gacha and GPS navigation which will alienate existing and newcomers to the KH franchise

Edited May 15May 15 by DisneyXPixarfan95

10 hours ago, Kid Ryan said:

 

 

Yeah a Back Cover style movie is our best chance now, assuming they try to salvage the story from the game.

Either that or maybe they canceled Missing Link, to make a side story mainline game using the ML story?

That's possible too. I doubt they'll just throw away the story completely, especially as it promised to answer every unanswered question we had! 

This is really sad that the development for Kingdom Hearts: Missing Link is cancelled. I got the chance to play the Beta Test last year. It was nice to get an invitation from Square Enix to play the beta test. Even though the dialogue audio was in Japanese, it was still enjoyable to play the beta test. Such a sad shame the game isn't going ahead now.