Emio — The Smiling man launch date revealed

After a cryptic teaser video launched earlier this week, Nintendo has fully revealed Emio —The Smiling Man. This horror detective title will come to Nintendo Swap on August 29, 2024.

There was a variety of hypothesis and rumors surrounding the transient teaser Nintendo launched that merely requested “#WhoIsEmio?” earlier in July. Many suspected this was one other challenge from Bloober Crew, the identified horror studio at the moment creating the Silent Hill 2 Remake. Nonetheless, it has now been revealed that Emio isn’t solely a Nintendo-developed recreation, with Metroid producer Yoshio Sakamoto producing, but additionally a sequel to the Famicom Detective Membership collection that launched on the NES.

Emio — The Smiling Man

Nintendo goes darkish

After the preliminary 15-second teaser, Nintendo solely gave us one other 9-second clip to verify the identify and launch date for Emio — The Smiling Man. All we see is the mysterious determine sporting a paper bag on their head with a scribbled-on smiley face and artwork of three characters. The discharge date of August 29, 2024 is tucked within the backside proper nook.

A key element that may go over some followers’ heads is the subtitle of Famicom Detective Membership. This locations Emio — The Smiling Man inside stated collection that hasn’t seen a brand new entry in 30 years. Nonetheless, Nintendo has launched remakes of the 2 authentic titles, The Lacking Inheritor and The Lady Who Stands Behind, in 2021 on the Swap.

In line with the official web site for the sport, Emio — The Smiling Man will activity gamers to tackle the function of a detective making an attempt to unravel the homicide of a junior excessive pupil named Eisuke Sasaki discovered with a smiley face paper bag left on his head that calls again to older instances revolving round a disturbing city legend. As a part of the Utsugi Detective Company, you have to discover clues, interview witnesses, and try to unravel the thriller earlier than the killer strikes once more.

Producer Yoshio Sakamoto launched a brief video explaining his strategy to reviving this collection that has laid dormant for many years you possibly can view above.

Nintendo nearly by no means ventures into the realm of horror. The closest we have gotten have been some partnerships to convey video games like Everlasting Darkness and Resident Evil unique to its platforms previously. Whereas Nintendo will definitely enable horror video games on its platforms, it has by no means appeared all that keen on creating them itself, so there may be a variety of curiosity in seeing how Emio — The Smiling Man will end up.

Emio — The Smiling Man launches solely on Nintendo Swap August 29 and is at the moment obtainable for preorder on the eShop for $50.

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