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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It turns out Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club is narrowly my favorite in the series and possibly the darkest game Nintendo has ever made. Emio – The Smiling Man involves an ...

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 ...