Nintendo's teaser for a♋ horror game has turned out to be none other than Emio - The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club, the first new entry in the series in 35 years.
Last week, Nintendo shocked 𓄧pretty much everyone by dropping a disturb✱ing teaser for what looked like a first-party horror game, something decidedly un-Nintendo. The teaser even had a warning for "disturbing" content, leading many to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:anticipate a full-blown horror game in an exciting new direction for🍃 the developer and publisher.&nbs💮p;
Fast forward one week, and the game isn't quite what we thought it was. Nintendo has now revea🏅led the game, in the tweet below, to be a new Famicom Detective Club game, called Emio - The Smiling Man. This coincides with the initial teaser last week, which posited '#WhoIsEmio?'
#WhoIsEmio? Unmask the truth in a dark, twisted thriller for #NintendoSwitch. Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detect🌳ive Club launches 8/29. pic.twitter.com/Br1BAuk5fV
In Emio, a student has been found dead with a paper bag over his head, with an eerie smiling face drawn over it. This is the mark of a notorious legendaryꦇ urban killer Emio, and it's your job, as an assistant to a private investigator, to crack the new murder case, and what links it to a string of unsolved murders from 18 years ago.
A quick history lesson for those not familiar with the Famicom Detective Club series (like me). The first game in the series, Missing Heir, was releas🦋ed in 1988, while a prequel called The Girl Who Stands Behind released one year later. Nintendo has actually remade both games in tꦺhe decades since, and it was only with the two remakes that both games finally released outside of Japan.
It turns out famed Metroid developer Yoshio Sakamoto, who worked as a scenario writer on the original Famicom Detective Club games, is also returning to produce Emio - The Smiling Man. There's plenty of reason to be excited about this - not only is Sakamoto a veteran Nintendo developer, but he also helped oversee 2021's excellent 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Metroid Dread.
Emio - The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club launches next month on August 29 for the Nintendo Switch. Even if it isn't quite the full horror game that many had hoped for, there's still plenty of reason to be excited about Famicom Detective Club'𒉰s return.
Take a look at our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming Switch games guide for an overview of all the other first-party games Nintendo has in store for this year.
Hirun Cryer is a freelance reporter and writer with Gamesradar+ based out of U.K. After earning a degree in American History specializing in journalism, cin🔴ema, liter🎃ature, and history, he stepped into the games writing world, with a focus on shooters, indie games, and RPGs, and has since been the recipient of the MCV 30 Under 30 award for 2021. In his spare time he freelances with other outlets around the industry, practices Japanese, and enjoys contemporary manga and anime.
