Now, the series is getting its first new entry in 30 years called Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club and, unsurprisingly, it’s a top-notch mystery game. And while it has a ...

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 ...

Spoilers for Emio - The Smiling Man follow. The lead-up to this climax, however, is anything but straightforward. Like the previous two games in the Famicom Detective Club series, Emio - The ...

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One of the most confusing puzzles in Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club comes up as the main character is at the office pondering questions. The question is who are the three people ...

Right at the top of my list of ‘games I should have played this year’ was Emio – The Smiling Man, a point-and-click murder mystery visual novel that pushes the boundaries of how gruesome ...

It’s a job fit for a “Boy Detective.” Despite thin detective gameplay that may be light on actual deduction, Emio — The Smiling Man makes up for that with a slow-burn visual novel story ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The visual novel follows a duo of investigators looking into the murder of a student whose death may be tied to the Smiling Man urban legend.

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 ...

In truth, we’re still stunned at the announcement of Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club. The simple reason is that Nintendo typically doesn’t lean into the horror genre.