The Famicom Detective Club duology of remakes on Nintendo Switch instantly gripped me, as a fan of visual novels and mystery titles. When Nintendo revealed a third, original title in the series for ...

Nintendo's unexpected foray into horror with Emio the Smiling Man shows its continued commitment to diversification and experimentation. Emio challenges Nintendo's family-friendly image, signaling a ...

Emio: The Smiling Man is the first entry in the Famicom Detective Club franchise in nearly three decades, and while slightly unfamiliar with the source material, I’ve officially become a fan of the ...

Investigate a brutal death and its connection to an urban legend. 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 ...

It’s time to finally wrap things up in Chapter 12 of Emio: The Smiling Man. We’ve tracked down the hopeful location of our man, and we just need to pull the trigger and bring him in. If you’re looking ...

In a developer interview posted to Nintendo’s YouTube channel, Producer Yoshio Sakamoto explains that The Smiling Man is an urban legend, a supernatural being known to “offer crying girls a paper bag ...

Nintendo’s upcoming crime drama narrative adventure, Emio - The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club will be getting a demo on Nintendo Switch ahead of its release on August 29, 2024. The demo is set ...

Emio - The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club is just around the corner this month and marks the first new game in the series in around 27 years. With it comes an all-new original story from lead ...

There is a degree to which every detective story hinges on its ending. Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicon Detective Club has me wrestling with just how important that degree is. The first eight or so ...

Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club makes it clear in the title this murder mystery is largely about its killer. Emio is the titular creepy smiley face man at the forefront of the story, ...