Emio: Famicom Killer

The Emio teaser trailer had the internet talking with the prospect of a Nintendo developed horror game, something that we’re not used to. Well, the internet is still talking about Emio, but for a different reason.

It was revealed that Emio is the antagonist for the latest game in the Famicom Detective Club series; a visual novel series that has been around since the Famicom (as if you couldn’t guess).

Since the reveal a lot of people have been disappointed, since we look to have missed out on a Nintendo developed Resident Evil or Silent Hill—I’m not sure if we were ever in for something like that, but I would still have been interested in something new from Nintendo. However, there is both a visual novel fanbase and a Detective Club fanbase, and on top of that, the game is being headed up by Nintendo Legend Yoshio Sakamoto, the main man behind the Metroid franchise. So even if we’re not getting what might have been, there are reasons to look forward to Emio.

Playing videogames, writing about videogames, considering videogames—that about sums it up. Videogames are the one hobby that I’ve kept since I was only little, zapping ducks on the NES or knocking out MR. X. And when I’m not enjoying classics from the bit generation of games or checking out those earliest of polygons, I’m probably playing something from today’s age of modern gaming: if I’m not complaining about it. Something I’m doing at the moment? Returning to the black hole that is Football Manager.