The recent Nintendo trailers that showed a strange man wearing a smiling paper bag on his head have officially been announced as Emio – The Smiling Man, a new entry in the Famicom Detective Club series.
Recently, Nintendo uploaded bizarre, analog horror-style trailers, which fans thought were for abrand-new horror franchise.The truth is now out there, as a new trailer on theNintendo UKYouTube channel has announced that the trailers were teasers for Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club.
Emio – The Smiling Man is a revival of the Famicom Detective Club series
Emio – The Smiling Man is the first entry in the Famicom Detective Club series since 1989, with original designer and writer Yoshio Sakamoto back on board for the new game. Players will once again become part of the Utsugi Detective Agency as they hunt down a vicious killer.
The story centers around a murder case, where a young girl was found murdered with a smiling paper bag on her head. This is connected to a similar unsolved case from 18 years earlier when a paper bag-themed serial killer was on the loose. That leads people to wonder: Is this new killer a copycat, or has the original returned?
If players can’t wait for the Smiling Man to appear, they can check out the remakes of the original games, The Missing Heir and The Girl Who Stands Behind, which are currentlyavailable on Nintendo Switch.
Scott Baird is a Games Writer on Dexerto’s UK team, specializing in Pokemon, Baldur’s Gate, Dungeons & Dragons, Final Fantasy, and Magic The Gathering, and Nintendo games. He also has bylines at Cracked, Dorkly, Topless Robot, Screen Rant, The Gamer, and TopTenz.
