I’ve made my disdain for the best way Sq. Enix treats its cell portfolio fairly clear, depriving the participant base of wonderful video games as quickly as they don’t usher in sufficient revenue. They get pleasure from cancelling their video games a lot that they’ve gone a step additional, scrapping Kingdom Hearts Lacking-Hyperlink earlier than it even launched.
To recap the sport that by no means was, it was going to be a GPS tackle the Kingdom Hearts collection. You’ll discover the world, encounter monsters, suppose Pokémon Go, however you wailed on Heartless with a giant key. It sounded fairly good, and like it will change the opening left by Kingdom Hearts Union X. Apparently, cell doesn’t deserve the Disney love.
After a few betas final yr, we obtained hit with a delay notification in November 2024, then silence, and now right here we’re. Not less than this time, Sq. has put out an announcement that isn’t simply pithy gross sales speak. You possibly can try the Tweet/x/TwiX put up for the total deal, however the crux of the reason being, phrase for phrase, “we decided that it will be tough for us to supply a service that gamers would discover passable over a protracted time period”.
So, Sq. determined they didn’t have sufficient concepts to run with this. However, could I level out, Pokémon Go and Monster Hunter Now aren’t precisely placing out epic sagas with their updates. They nonetheless pull within the gamers. It’s extremely disappointing Sq. would scrap all that onerous work only for concern that, let’s be trustworthy, individuals wouldn’t spend on the microtransactions in the long term.
They signed off the announcement by saying that the workforce is difficult at work on Kingdom Hearts IV, a collection the place the earlier most important title took 14 years to launch. However, seeing because it received’t be coming to cell, possibly Sq. will let this one see the sunshine of day.
