New Kingdom Hearts Mobile Game, Missing-Link, Announced, Closed Beta Test This Year

Square Enix announced a brand new Kingdom Hearts mobile title called Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link. A closed beta testing will be held sometime in the year. 

Revealed in a new 20th Anniversary announcement trailer released today, Missing-Link looks more like a console Kingdom Hearts experience than it does a standard mobile Kingdom Hearts (in terms of gameplay, at least). It features 3D environments, many of the familiar Heartless we’ve been fighting for decades, this time in battle arenas, and completely free combat, just like the mainline series. It’s available to view in action at the 1:55 mark. 

As you can see in the trailer above, it looks like we might even be able to create and customize our very own Keyblade Master, or at least, we aren’t playing as the Keyblade Masters we’ve come to know throughout the rest of the series. There’s a handful of previously-visited worlds shown too, including Disney ones like the Tangled world from Kingdom Hearts III, and original Kingdom Hearts worlds as well.

If you’re excited to check Missing-Link out, you might have the chance to sometime this year because Square Enix says in 2022, it will hold a closed beta test for the mobile title on iOS and Android devices in specific regions of the world. Square Enix did not reveal where, but presumably, Japan will be one of them considering it’s where the company is based. 

In terms of what’s going on in Missing-Link, all we have to go off of at the moment is the voiceover presented in the trailer. Here’s what’s said, in full:

“Light and darkness brought about the beginning, and hearts nurtured it. It was passed on to the next generation until it was full of thriving citizens. This is a city for light and darkness, dreams and distortion, the remembered and the forgotten – Scala ad Caelum. The missing link. The missing link. Here people came together to form a group, creating societies that stretched and branched through the city. The night you awoke in this world, the stars shone contorted in the pitch-black sky.” 

Square Enix has not revealed when Missing-Link will be available on iOS or Android, despite the fact that it is in closed beta testing. 

Square Enix also revealed in today’s trailer that the “long-awaited finale” to the years-long story of Kingdom Hearts Union X, which is happening in the mobile game Kingdom Hearts Dark Road, will be released for free this August. 

You can read the Kingdom Hearts IV announcement that took place in the 20th Anniversary trailer that Missing-Link announced. Game Informer’sReview of Kingdom Hearts III.

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