Nintendo’s mystery title Emio is a detective game
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On a random Wednesday in July, Nintendo asked, #whoisemio, accompanying the question with a cryptic and creepy 15-second teaser. Now with an official annoucement and a new listing on the Nintendo e-Shop, we know.
Emio, known as Smiling Man in the Japanese version, is not a new horror project but rather the latest entry in Nintendo’s Famicom Detective Club series. In it, you’ll play as, what else, a detective tasked with solving the gruesome murder of a student who was found with a paper bag with a smiling face over his head. Contrary to the rumors that suggested The Medium studio Bloober Team was the game’s developer, Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club was actually developed internally at Nintendo with Metroid producer…