Nintendo has announced the upcoming release of Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club, the first new installment in the Famicom Detective Club series in over thirty years. The game is set for a global launch on August 29th for the Nintendo Switch, with availability on the eShop as well as in retail stores.
Famicom Detective Club is a trilogy of adventure games developed and published by Nintendo for the Family Computer Disk System and Nintendo Switch. The first game, The Missing Heir, came out in 1988, followed by a prequel the next year called The Girl Who Stands Behind. In these games, players become a young man solving murder mysteries in the Japanese countryside.
These games marked Yoshio Sakamoto’s first writing project before his success with Metroid. Famicom Detective Club inspired by Enix’s The Portopia Serial Murder Case, horror films by Dario Argento, and detective novels by Seishi Yokomizo, both games were well-received by critics in Japan.
#WhoIsEmio? Unmask the truth in a dark, twisted thriller for #NintendoSwitch. Emio – The Smiling Man: #FamicomDetectiveClub launches Aug 29th. pic.twitter.com/xy6wdw3vyX
— Nintendo of Europe (@NintendoEurope) July 17, 2024
