Emio - The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club is a successful homage to the venerable series, which tells an enticing story despite its repetitive nature. Let's lay out the facts of the case ...

Jul 17, 2024 - OK, but who is Emio?

As the first new entry in the Famicom Detective Club visual novel (VN) series in almost 30 years, Emio - The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club is nothing short of a triumph and easily one of the ...

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 ...

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 compelling ...

What is Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club? As stated earlier, this is the first new Famicom Detective Club game in 30 years! Which is very exciting news for fans of the series.

While having to investigate outside of the police’s jurisdiction might seem like a limitation to begin with, Emio – The Smiling Man wastes absolutely no time proving its benefits. You can ...

Still, I was delighted to find that Emio - The Smiling Man opens with a bang and maintains that momentum for its entire runtime. The narrative begins with a schoolboy found dead, seemingly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...