Topic: New Famicom Detective Club Announced, Mystery of Emio The Smiling Man Launching August 29

[Shaymin]

Welcome to Sakamoto's world.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/67888/new-famicom-detective-club-announced-mystery-of-emio-the-smiling-man-launching-august-29

It's a red hot Famicom summer as a new set of meeting minutes from the Detective Club is coming.

Following a tease last week, Nintendo have announced Emio - The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club. The first original adventure in the series in this century, it will launch with a physical version.

Presumably due to themes, the North American release has an ESRB M rating.

[M.K.Ultra]

I was one of the folks that thought this was a fatal frame game. Still, glad to see Nintendo publishing an M rated game and getting a cartridge release it even better.

[Lemonade]

This Furukawa era of Nintendo is not so bad. We get remakes of the original two games, remakes of Another Code, now a new game in the FDC series. Someone at Nintendo must love this stuff.

Im interested, but I will wait for reviews on this one.

[Luigi Dude]

This Furukawa era of Nintendo is not so bad. We get remakes of the original two games, remakes of Another Code, now a new game in the FDC series. Someone at Nintendo must love this stuff.

This is why it's a good thing when Nintendo has an insanely successful system like the Switch.  They're making so much money that they have no problem green lighting a lot of these smaller niche titles.  They were doing the same thing during the Wii and DS era, but then slowed down during the Wii U and 3DS.

I wouldn't be surprised if after the Switch sales really exploded in 2020, is when everyone at Nintendo who wanted to either remake or make a new installment of an older series put in a request which is why we seem to be getting a lot of them recently.

[Khushrenada]

I fear the news that the mysterious Smiling Man game is actually a new entry in the Famicom Detective Club series will be a bigger twist than anything actually in the game.

[Khushrenada]

I wouldn't be surprised if after the Switch sales really exploded in 2020, is when everyone at Nintendo who wanted to either remake or make a new installment of an older series put in a request which is why we seem to be getting a lot of them recently.

I can just imagine all these producers constantly pitching their pet projects like Miyamoto wanting to do Pikmin 4 or Sakamoto wanting to do another Detective Club game and always be shot down because the console sales / userbase suggested it wouldn't get a good return. Finally, the board establishes a rule that when a console sells a certain amount (like 80 million) then they'll greenlight these projects. As soon as Switch hit that goal, it became pet project pandemonium as every publisher began pushing for their project proposals to begin.

Famicom Detective Club remakes? Approved. New 2D Metroid? Approved. New WarioWare? Approved. A Big Brain Academy entry? Approved. A 1-2 Switch sequel? Uhhhhh... all right, approved. Another Code remakes? Sure. Pikmin 4? Yes, approved. Princess Peach Showtime? Ok, approved. A WarioWare game? Didn't we already do this? Eh, whatever, approved. A new Endless Ocean game? Are you people trying to take advantage of my good nature right now? Well, console sales won't let me stop you so approved. A new Famicom Detective Club game? Approved. Just get out of my office. *Better call my secretary* "Yes, sir?" I just want to confirm that Takaya Imamura is still retired and hasn't come back into the building. "That is correct, sir." Good. At least I won't have to worry about approving new F-Zero, Star Fox, Steel Divers or Tank Troopers games. "Sir, Kenji Miki is here to see you about a new Ice Climber entry." Damn it!!! It's gonna be approved!!!

[Ian Sane]

If it was a survival horror game I probably wouldn't get it as that's not a genre I'm really into.  But as a Detective Club game I'm very interested!  I was not expecting that so it's a nice payoff for the Emio teaser.

However I have not yet played the Famicom Detective Club remakes, which I want to play first.  Why haven't I yet?  Because those games have never gone on sale to my knowledge.  Nintendo isn't very into sales like Switch third parties are but at least if there is a physical release you might catch a store having a sale.  Since these are eShop exclusives their price is entirely up to Nintendo's whim and they haven't put them on sale.  So I've never been in a rush to get them since I have other games to play.  Now, maybe they'll finally get a sale to coincide with Emio's release?  If there was a time to do it, that would make sense.

[Khushrenada]

Yeah, I've always watched to see if there would be a sale for those games and there's been nothing so far. Nintendo's got the two case bundle and seems to think $10 off for the two of them is good enough. However, last year I realized a gold coin strategy in which I made sure I collected all the gold coins from physical games I'd bought were acquired. (I've had a bad habit of not doing that because I'll leave games wrapped and on my shelf keeping them new until I get around to playing them and thus missing out on gold points.) I was also able to borrow Switch games from my library. Not every library may have that option but by doing so, about half the time, I could collect gold points from those games. (It seems some other people were smart enough to collect gold coins this way also but it's also further frustrating. Clearly, Nintendo is able to keep track of which cartridge has already collected gold coins. If so, why limit it to one year for that cartridge to collect its gold points?) By doing this, within a year, I then used that gold point collection on the two case and was able to pretty much knock off half the price for it and make my own sale for them.

I'm shocked and surprised this new game will get a physical release as I'm still not sold on our shiny digital future and really don't like being forced to do digital only.

[DigitalGreenTea]

I'm super happy that this game is being developed. I will always be happy when Nintendo adds more to their older, more niche series. I haven't gotten around to playing the remakes. Now I have more reason to do so.