Nintendo’s mystery title Emio is a detective game

Emio, known arsenic Smiling Man successful the Japanese version, is not a caller fearfulness task but alternatively the latest introduction successful Nintendo’s Famicom Detective Club series. In it, you’ll play as, what else, a detective tasked with solving the gruesome execution of a pupil who was recovered with a insubstantial container with a smiling look implicit his head. Contrary to the rumors that suggested The Medium workplace Bloober Team was the game’s developer, Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club was really developed internally astatine Nintendo with Metroid shaper Yoshio Sakamoto starring the project. Nintendo posted a abbreviated video featuring Sakamoto sharing much details astir the game.

Emio — The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club is the archetypal caller crippled successful the bid successful 30 years. In 2021, Nintendo released remakes of the archetypal 2 Detective Club games, The Missing Heir and The Girl Who Stands Behind which archetypal debuted successful the precocious ‘80s.

Though Emio wasn’t featured during the Nintendo Direct backmost successful June, the crippled volition articulation Nintendo’s vacation merchandise schedule, launching connected August 29th.