Emio - The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club Is Getting A Free Multipart Demo

i definitely will be getting the demos before buying it, so excited tho ! looks like its gonna be pretty lengthy

I’ll be trying this demo, alright. Can’t wait for it.

Awesome! I was just complaining that I felt like they forgot about this game. I enjoy creative releases. I’m on board to start this game a little earlier than release date.

I would like to try demos. But, I hope that they will not censore them nor the full game.

I'll definitely be trying the demo as I wasn't going to chance a purchase on something I don't know if I'd enjoy.

Finally some promotion! Better late then never. I'll probably only play part one of the demo, I have the game ordered anyway. However from the demo trailer the game looks a bit stiff (stiff animations). Was it also like this in the remakes of the nes games?

A) I hope the game is good and B) I hope the demo leaves players wanting more. Not since Danganronpa has it felt like an ADV has had mainstream success here.

I played the first two Famicom Detective Club games over the past few weeks. I’ve already preordered on the eShop and can’t wait to get stuck into it.

I’d be cautious about the direct comparisons to Ace Attorney. It’s got more of a 90’s pc adventure game flavour than those titles. That said if you like visual novels you’ll most likely enjoy these. They are genuinely some of the best looking visual novels and the stories of both earlier games were really outstanding.

I appreciate this as a send up to the otherwise forgotten Broadcast Satellite Detective Club by dicing up the demo. Still, the first 4 chapters (counting prologue) seems a bit less of when you consider Another Code's demo was just the exceptionally short Grounds of Blood Edward Island section, and that FDC 1 and 2 were only 10 chapters long.

Then you remember this game is 5 times the size of those and you start to question "What the hell is Mages doing with this?"

I can't say that I'm still excited about it since it turned out to be an entry of the Famicom Detective Club games, but I might play the demo just to give it a chance.

That works out pretty great for me! The launch timing is kinda awkward since I'll be on a work trip, so getting to start in on it early should help.

I already pre-ordered it but might as well start early.

I've said it once and I'll say it again: all games should have demos. I will play this demo and possibly buy this game. If there wasn't a demo I probably would have been interested but never bought it. Demos will drive sales.

I will always associate this game with the disappointment I felt learning that Nintendo was not actually making a horror game.

I hope they'll finally put the remaster of the first two FDC on sales. I still can't believe it wasn't ever already

I would get this game... except that I very much can't do "horror" or even gore at all. If I got it I'd be lying awake all night waiting to be killed lol!

It’s so frustrating that the first two games were never made available physically in the UK at all. Even more annoying that they haven’t taken the opportunity to bundle all three together instead of just the new one for its physical release.

At least put the others on sale. No way I’m paying £50 for digital versions of games I might not even like.

@larryisaman : Bundling all three for the price of a single new game would be ridiculous, but I think that this is an encouraging sign that there may just be a Western physical release of the first two games in the pipeline, maybe for an early 2025 release (assuming that the Switch release schedule will be pretty barren as we approach the next generation console).

In any case, Nintendo won't be seeing a cent from me otherwise. There's no way in hell I'm paying AU$90 for a digital game. I wouldn't even pay half that.

Coincidentally, the victims will also be divided into multiple parts.

Wasn't interested in this but I'll give the demo a try and see if it surprises me.

@SillyG Why ridiculous? Those remakes have been out for years and were definitely not big money spinners for Nintendo to begin with. Sweetening the deal by including the first two games for new fans in the physical version seems like a no brainer to me, much like they did with Bayonetta 2

This game is so expensive for what it seems to be... will be looking for a used copy a week after release on fb marketplace... 😅😅😅

No English voiceover in the trailer... Did the remakes have an English voice acting option?

@Tyranexx Completely agree. I keep seeing people say that it was disappointing of them to do that reveal and just have it be a detective game. But I would counter-argue that if they had a detective game ready to go, advertising it like this was the BEST possible choice in order to find people interested. Having a demo was also a great decision.

I already have the game preordered so not going to play the demo as I rather enjoy the full game when it is out instead of being timelocked

@Clyde_Radcliffe no, they did not have English voice acting, and nor should they have. It’s not the kind of game that would benefit from a dub.

I am really excited about this. The Famicom Detective Club games are some of my favorite visual novel games on Switch. Yes, the game design is somewhat dated, but I was shocked by how engaging it is. It actually made me feel the way I did the first time I played Professor Layton, back around 2007 or 2008, which was my first introduction to the mystery game genre and which was obviously inspired by FDC through the lens of Ace Attorney. I was already excited about the Emio teaser, but I feel like one of the only people who got MORE excited when they revealed it was a Famicom Detective Club game.

I’m also interested in what a company as creative as Nintendo does in the context of the horror genre, particularly M-rated horror. This is really rare throughout their history. Among the games they’ve published on Switch, the only M-rated titles are this and the three Bayonetta games, and this is the only one developed in-house. There is a first-party presence of Fatal Frame on Wii U, but again this is the first M-rated game in quite a while that is fully developed by Nintendo.

I also think they timed it quite nicely—kids who were 12-15 in 2021 and may have played the T-rated Famicom Detective Club entries are now the right age for a more intense horror VN.

Considering this, the excellent Another Code: Recollection, new Zelda, new Mario & Luigi, and Endless Ocean: Luminous (a surprising sleeper hit for me), 2024 is set to become one of my personal favorite Nintendo years in quite some time. They’re really taking risks and doing a lot of creative interesting things while more advanced development is undoubtedly taking place on the next big flagship titles.

Do I need to play the first two in order to play this one ?

Looks amazing

@Nechiku yes, do yourself a favour

@Clyde_Radcliffe Nope, you can read, right? The Japanese voice work is really good

@CaleBoi25 I’m quite certain It is not actually going to be very horror. The previous two games were visual novels, nothing excessive in them at all.

sweet a demo and this looks compelling and could different!!

@Nechiku No, this game has no story connection to the other games. They're worth it though.

I will be getting the demo(s) for sure, excited for this one.

I'll give the demo a go just to finally get my feet wet in the Famicom Detective Club games. I still wish they would come up with a much bigger sale for the first two games. Further, it would be nice if they had a physical release. I'm not really trying to drum up the sum of cash needed to play the first two.

@Bardoom Just so you know, that is not an appropriate abbreviation for Japanese (JA, JP, JPN), but instead a WWII era slur

@Nechiku I'd recommend them but the answer is probably not. The first two games really just barely relate to each other beyond sharing main characters and while the first game might have some spoilers for it in this one, it's also something they can pretty easily write around if they want to.

I wonder how long this one will be, the remakes both run around 8 hours. Think I'd rather just wait for the full release.

@Tyranexx Agreed. I understand being disappointed that it wasn’t a “proper” horror game but you can only blame your own expectations for that.

@spottedleaf true, my bad

@NintendoWife Good to know! Though with my track record... anything is possible nightmare fuel!

@CaleBoi25 The first 2 were primarily (murder) mysteries, you being the detective. So there was the odd slightly spooky cutscene, but the actual gameplay is all bright and chill.

The Switch version of 1 and 2 need to come out physically in English.

When's this dropping? No sign of it yet