Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club Announced

Last week, Nintendo released a haunting 15-second teaser trailer for a mysterious upcoming title. Today, the company announced the title in question is the mystery adventure game Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club for the Nintendo Switch.

This will be the first new Famicom Detective Club title in 35 years and will be the third game in the series. It will be released worldwide on August 29 and will retail for $49.99.

Check out the full trailer for Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club below.

“Investigate a brutal death and its connection to an urban legend,” the game’s synopsis reads. “A student has been found dead! His head was covered with a paper bag with an eerie smiling face drawn on it—much like the victims of Emio, the Smiling Man—a killer of urban legend who is said to place such a bag over his victims’ heads.

As an assistant private investigator, you are tasked with helping police solve this crime, which is reminiscent of a series of unsolved murders from 18 years ago. Has a serial killer returned, or is this the work of a copycat? Are these crimes inspired by the Smiling Man story, or the origin of it?

Discover the answers to these questions and more as a member of the Utsugi Detective Agency in this intense story of suspicion, isolation, and fragility.”

The Famicom Detective Club murder mystery games were originally released for the Famicom Disk System in Japan in the late 1980s. These were previously remade for the Nintendo Switch.

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