The thriller over Nintendo’s surprise horror game has deepened, with the revelation that it’s considerably darker than previously thought.
Nintendo acting strangely is the most normal thing possible for the company but, even by their standards, Wednesday’s reveal of what appears to be a brand new horror game was odd.
Apart from the name Emio – or The Smiling Man, as it translates to in Japan – nothing is known about what the game is, who is making it or where it’s suddenly come from.
The only image so far is of a creepy looking man with a paper bag on his head but the age rating information from the Australian version of the trailer reveals that the game features, ‘Strong themes, violence, and suicide references’, as well as ‘violence, cruelty, domestic abuse, and suicide themes.’
There’s no further information – the details are just in the age rating displays at the start of the trailer – however they’re very particular and counsel a significantly extra severe horror sport than you’d count on from Nintendo.
Although it’s nonetheless not confirmed if Nintendo themselves are publishing the sport, that’s actually the impression they’re giving, because it bought a simultaneous reveal throughout all their web sites and social media, in each Japan and the West.
Nintendo has dabbled with horror video games earlier than, with the likes of Eternal Darkness and Project Zero, however whereas the latter does contact on some severe points the video games have typically been on the schlockier, extra fantastical finish of the horror spectrum.
That doesn’t appear to be what’s occurring right here, though the one caveat is that Australia, surprisingly, has the strictest content material requirements within the West and it’s doable they’re overstating how huge part of the sport’s story these parts are.
The solely different factor to go on for the time being is the suggestion that the developer could also be Bloober Team, the developer behind the disappointing The Medium and the controversial remake of Silent Hill 2.
Although they concentrate on horror video games many have questioned how good they are surely at them, however as quickly as Emio was introduced followers brough up current feedback about how they had been engaged on a Nintendo unique referred to as Project M (probably brief for ‘mature’).
They by no means explicitly state that Nintendo is publishing the sport, however they do speak in regards to the challenge being low finances and opening up their ‘second social gathering portfolio’.
‘We are engaged on it in cooperation with the world’s greatest sport creators for Nintendo platforms, so we can’t afford to create only a respectable sport,’ they stated in response to Polish web site Strefa Inwestorów.
If you are taking that at face worth, then it does appear to counsel that Bloober Team is concerned. However, speaking about issues overtly like this isn’t going to endear them to Nintendo. Nor is the truth that they consult with Nintendo ‘platforms’ within the plural, implying the sport could also be a cross-gen Switch 2 sport.
There’s no clue as to when the sport could also be launched but it surely’s comparatively uncommon for Nintendo to announce a brand new title, significantly a decrease profile one, too far prematurely of its launch, so a Halloween launch appears a great guess.
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