'We Lost Something Truly Special' — Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link Leak Has Fans Wishing Square Enix Hadn't Canceled Its Mobile Spinoff
The clip shows Keyblade-wielding astronauts battling a Heartless Darkside, but Square Enix has not verified the footage.
- On Monday, an alleged five-minute opening cinematic for the canceled mobile game Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link appeared on 4chan, depicting astronaut-like characters using jetpacks to battle a Heartless before arriving in Quadratum.
- Square Enix originally announced Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link in 2022 as a GPS Action RPG for mobile devices, but canceled the project in 2025 before its release.
- While some users claim the cinematic is legitimate, Square Enix has not verified the footage, and observers remain divided on whether the video is AI-generated or authentic.
- Fans are analyzing the footage for lore connections to Kingdom Hearts 4, with some confirming the character is "100% Sigurd" based on visual similarities, while others joked it resembles Pragmata.
- Subtitles in the footage state, "The era missing from history's cycle," as characters face distortions in Scala ad Caelum, aligning with the franchise's history of "out there" story beats.
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'We Lost Something Truly Special' — Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link Leak Has Fans Wishing Square Enix Hadn't Canceled Its Mobile Spinoff
What appears to be nearly finished footage of the intro for canceled mobile game Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link has leaked online.Kingdom Hearts fans were taken aback over the weekend when clips from a never-released game found their way online through 4chan (via Vice). The project in question is Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link, an iOS and Android title that was announced in 2022, worked on for years, and eventually canceled in 2025.Things heated up to…
New Footage From Canceled Kingdom Hearts Game Appears Online, And Fans Are Trying to Figure Out How It's Tied to KH4
It’s been years since fans got a new entry in the Kingdom Hearts series, with the last mainline entry being released in 2019. Fans have been eagerly awaiting some sort of follow-up for Sora, especially after the ambiguous elements of his fate in Kingdom Hearts III and the subsequent story expansions. One of the games that was meant to bridge the gap from what came before to what awaited fans was Kingdom Hearts: Missing-Link, a mobile game that w…
Leaked Kingdom Hearts trailer has sent fans into a frenzy
Kingdom Hearts never fails to deliver bizarre sights, such as a child in clown shoes battling iconic Final Fantasy 7 villain Sephiroth in the colosseum from Hercules. However, even compared to the series’ general ridiculousness, the allegedly leaked opening cinematic from the canceled mobile game Kingdom Hearts Missing-Linkis wild.
Cancelled Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link Footage Reportedly Leaks, and It’s Really Bizarre
The opening cinematic for the cancelled Android and iOS game Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link has reportedly leaked online, and it may be one of the franchise’s most bizarre sequences yet. The footage appears to feature Keyblade-wielding astronauts using jetpacks to battle a massive Heartless Darkside. Cancelled Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link Intro Reportedly Leaks Online Last year, Square […] The post Cancelled Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link Footage Repor…
Canceled Kingdom Hearts spin-off's intro apparently leaks online and not even veteran fans understand what's going on: "Why does it look like Pacific Rim but with Keyblades"
After the game was unceremoniously canceled last year, the opening cinematic of Kingdom Hearts: Missing-Link has apparently leaked online. The video contains several hallmarks of the unreleased project and plenty of Tetsuya Nomura-isms besides, lending credence to its legitimacy and providing some hints about what we might see in Kingdom Hearts 4.Versions of the short film made their way around the information superhighway before a full upload l…
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