A week on from posting a mysterious teaser revealing a creepy man wearing a smiling paper bag mask,
In 2021,
Per the game’s official description, it will begin with the death of a school student, who is found with a paper bag over his head. This clue links back to historic murders that took players nearly two decades earlier – and it’s up to players to work out the connection, and how the urban legend of a killer who gives his victims “a smile that will last forever” relates.
“Has a serial killer returned, or is this the work of a copycat? Are these crimes inspired by the Smiling Man story, or the origin of it? These answers and more will be discovered as you investigate in Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club.”
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For those unfamiliar with the Famicom Detective Club games, it’s worth noting they helped to pioneer detective visual novels. Each entry focusses on a core mystery, typically with elements of seeming supernatural horror, and this is unravelled as players investigate.
To gather clues, you’ll travel from place to place, interviewing suspects, analysing crime scenes, and drawing connections based on intuition. You’ll need to keep your wits with you as you explore, as the series tends to ask tough questions, and force you to think through the clues presented before approaching the next stage of your investigation.
As announced, this new entry in the series is set to launch for
