Nintendo Releases 'Famicom Detective Club The Smiling Man - Emio' After 35 Years

TapTechNews July 17th news, after releasing a mysterious teaser video last week, Nintendo officially released the completely new work of the 'Famicom Detective Club' series, 'Famicom Detective Club: The Smiling Man - Emio' after a 35-year hiatus.

'Famicom Detective Club: The Smiling Man - Emio' will log in to the Nintendo Switch platform on August 29th, and it supports Chinese.

The digital version in the Japanese region is 6500 yen (TapTechNews note: currently about $4.68 USD).

The physical version is 6578 yen (currently about $4.69 USD).

The physical collector's edition is 9878 yen (currently about $7.07 USD).

According to the producer, Sakamoto Kazuyuki, 'The Smiling Man' is an original urban legend in this work, and he said that the ending of the game may cause different controversies.

'The Smiling Man' will appear in front of girls who are sad and crying, and give them paper bags with smiling faces in exchange for their names.

The Soramame Detective Agency will solve the urban legend of 'The Smiling Man' and the very similar'murder case' in this work.

The previous works of the series, 'Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir' and 'Famicom Detective Club PART II: The Girl Standing Behind', logged in to the Nintendo FC platform in 1988 and 1989 respectively, and the remastered version logged in to the Switch platform in 2021.