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{{Infobox CVG (Nintendo)
| name = ''Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club''
| image = Emio the Smiling Man - Famicom Detective Club (NA).jpg
| developer = [[Nintendo EPD]]<br>[[MAGES]]
| publisher = [[Nintendo]]
| system1 = Nintendo Switch
| system1WW = August 29, [[2024]]
| genre = Adventure
| ESRB = M
| PEGI = 18
| CERO = C
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'''''Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club''''' {{Japanese|ファミコン探偵倶楽部 笑み男}} is a [[Nintendo Switch]] game in the ''[[Famicom Detective Club]]'' series. The game is the first new installment in the Famicom Detective Club franchise in over 30 years. The game is centered on the murder of a student found wearing a paper bag over his head, which may be connected to a string of murders linked to a serial killer 18 years prior.

==Gameplay==
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The game is played like previous entries. The player control a detective who is investigating a case. The player can go to certain locations which get expanded on as they progress in their investigation. In each location, a menu will show up allowing the player to do certain commands such as Ask, Examine, Take and Show. New to this game are segments where the player controls [[Ayumi Tachibana]]. 

==Plot==
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A middle school student, [[Eisuke Sasaki (Famicom Detective Club)|Eisuke Sasaki]], is found dead on a path, his head covered in a paper bag with a smiley face drawn onto it. The case has similarities to the murders of three young girls from 18 years prior, as well as the urban legend of the [[The Smiling Man]], who is said to approach crying girls and give them "a smile that will last forever". Private detective [[Shunsuke Utsugi]] and his two apprentices, [[Protagonist (Famicom Detective Club)|the protagonist]] and [[Ayumi Tachibana]], investigate the case. Also on the case is [[Junko Kuze]], a detective whose brother [[Makoto Kuze|Makoto]] disappeared around the same time of the murders, and [[Daisuke Kamihara|Daisuke "Dice" Kamihara]], her partner.

==Development==
The game was first teased with a video released on [[Nintendo]]'s YouTube channels on July 10, 2024. The following week, Nintendo released an interview with [[Yoshio Sakamoto]] revealing the full title of the game.
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==Reception==
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==Trivia==
*This game marks the first first-party Nintendo game to be rated M by the ESRB system as well as one of only two games to be made in-house by Nintendo to be rated M, the other being ''[[Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem]]''. This was because a major part of the plotline of the game (including the post-game chapter) dealt with very serious subject matter such as teen suicide as well as broken households, as well as a scene where the main antagonist manages to cut portions of his face off with gore being explicitly shown during this time. The Japanese version, however, maintains the C CERO rating of the first two games.

==External links==
*[https://www.nintendo.com/jp/switch/emio/index.html Official site (Nintendo Japan)]

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