Nintendo’s first ever 18-rated video game is not what you’d expect from the initial teaser images, as Famicom Detective Club returns.
The best part of Emio – The Smiling Man is the initial marketing, before anyone knew what it really was. In a very un-Nintendo move, they teased the game with some creepy survival horror style imagery, which had people guessing for days as to what the game might be – before being horribly disappointed when it turned out to be a new Famicom Detective Club game.
The franchise is almost unknown in the West and only got its first release outside of Japan in 2021, with a remake compilation of the original two NES (known as the Famicom in Japan) games. They’re both visual novels, not entirely dissimilar to Ace Attorney, but with more interactivity than normal, as you try to solve various crimes as a teenage detective.
A lot of work was put into …