Emio: The Smiling Man Walkthrough

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Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club has 12 chapters full of mysteries to solve. Learn how to piece together the clues and uncover the true identity of Emio, The Smiling Man, with Game8's complete walkthrough.

Prologue: A Face Walkthrough

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Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2
Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5
Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8
Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11
Chapter 12 Tips and Guides About the Game

Scene of the Crime

1 Police Officer: Ask/Listen 2 times
2 Police Officer: Ask/Listen → "Victim", "Cause of death", "Time of death" 1 time each
3 Police Officer: Ask/Listen → "Cause of death"
4 Police Officer: Ask/Listen → "Victim" or "Observations?"
5 Police Officer: Look/Examine → "Victim"
6 Enter your first and last name (Cannot be changed later)
7 Kuze: Think
8 Kuze: Look/Examine → "Where?" → Kuze
Emio Chapter 1 Kuze
9 Utsugi・Kamada: Ask/Listen → "Victim", "About Kuze", "Observations?" 1 time each
10 Utsugi・Kamada: Ask/Listen
11 Utsugi・Kamada: Think
12 Utsugi・Kamada: Ask/Listen → "Victim"

Chapter 1: The Urban Legend Walkthrough

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Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2
Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5
Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8
Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11
Chapter 12 Tips and Guides About the Game

Utsugi Detective Agency

1 Utsugi: Ask/Listen → "The victim"
2 Utsugi: Ask/Listen → "Murders from 18 years ago" 2 times
3 Utsugi: Ask/Listen → "Observations?"
4 Utsugi: Think 2 times
5 Utsugi: Ask/Listen → "The victim"
6 Utsugi: Open Notebook → Press B to close
7 Utsugi: Think 2 times
Continue to step 8
Utsugi: Think only 1 time → Ask/Listen
Skip to step 10
8 Utsugi: Ask/Listen → "About Kuze"
9 Utsugi: Ask/Listen
10 Ayumi: Ask/Listen → "The Smiling Man"
11 Ayumi: Ask/Listen → "The Smiling Man"
12 Utsugi: "Take" → "What?" → Cell phone
Emio Chapter 1 Take the Cell Phone
13 Ayumi: Ask/Listen
14 Ayumi: Review
Correct Answers:
1. Based on what we know so far, I suspect homicide.
2. It's just like the Smiling Man urban legend.
15 Ayumi: Think 2 times
16 Protagonist: Travel → "Police station"

Police Station

1 Call/Engage → "People nearby"
2 Police Officer: Ask/Listen
3 Police Officer: Look/Examine → "Where?" → Police officer's face
Emio Chapter 1 Police Officer
4 Police Officer: Ask/Listen
5 Police Officer・Kamihara: Ask/Listen
6 Kamihara: Ask/Listen
7 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "The victim", "Time of death", "Scene of the crime" 1 time each
8 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "Observations?" 2 times
9 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "The victim" 2 times
Correct answer:
They were strangled differently.
10 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "Eisuke's case"
11 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "Murders from 18 years ago" 3 times
12 Kamihara: Ask/Listen
13 Kamihara: Think
14 Kamihara: Look/Examine → "Where?" → Kamihara
Emio Chapter 1 Kamihara
15 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "The Smiling Man"
16 Kamihara: Take → "Tea"
17 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "Observations?"
18 Kamihara: Look/Examine → "Where?" → Kamihara
Emio Chapter 1 Kamihara
19 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "Observations?"
20 Kuze: Ask/Listen
21 Travel
22 Police Officer: Ask/Listen → "About Kamada"
23 Police Officer: Travel → "Utsugi Detective Agency"

Utsugi Detective Agency

1 Protagonist: Review
Correct Answers:
1. Eighteen years ago.
2. Were teenage girls.
3. Choose an option and a name from the Notebook. You can choose "I, uh, got lucky and saw..." → Others → Police Officer for a unique dialogue, but this has no other effects.

Chapter 2: Disappearance Walkthrough

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Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2
Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5
Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8
Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11
Chapter 12 Tips and Guides About the Game

Police Station

1 Kamada: Ask/Listen → "Paper bag"
2 Kamada: Think
3 Kamada: Ask/Listen → "Murders from 18 years ago"
4 Kamada: Ask/Listen → "Paper bag"
5 Kamada: Ask/Listen
6 Kamada: Ask/Listen → "Missing boy"
7 Kamada: Ask/Listen 2 times
8 Kamada: Ask/Listen → "Murders from 18 years ago"
9 Kamada: Ask/Listen → "Missing man"
10 Kamada: Think
11 Kamada: Ask/Listen → "About Kuze"
12 Kamada: Ask/Listen
13 Kamada: Ask/Listen → "About Kuze"
14 Kamada: Ask/Listen → "Eisuke's case"
Correct answer: The victims were killed in a different manner.
15 Kamada: Think
16 Kamada: Ask/Listen → "The Smiling Man" 2 times
17 Kamada: Ask/Listen → "Observations?"
Continue to step 18. Receive additional info about Kamihara for the Notebook.
Kamada: Travel → "Scene of the crime"
Skip steps 18-24
18 Kamada: Ask/Listen → "Kamihara" 2 times
19 Kamada: Think
20 Kamada: Ask/Listen → "Observations?" 2 times
21 Kamada: Think
22 Kamada: Ask/Listen → "About Kuze"
23 Kamada: Think
24 Kamada: Travel → "Scene of the crime"

Scene of the Crime (Pump Station)

1 Think 2 times
2 Look/Examine → "Where?" → Fence, Bush, Warning Sign, Pump Station 1 time each
3 Think
4 Travel
5 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "Kamihara"
6 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "Eisuke's case" 2 times
7 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "Observations?" 2 times
8 Kamihara: Look/Examine → "Where?" → "Kuze"
Emio Chapter 2 Kuze 1
9 Kamihara: Think
10 Kamihara: Look/Examine → "Where?" → "Kamihara"
Emio Chapter 2 Kamihara
11 Kamihara: Look/Examine → "Where?" → "Kuze"
Emio Chapter 2 Kuze 2
12 Kamihara: Ask/Listen 2 times
13 Kamihara: Think
14 Think
15 Call/Engage → "Kamihara"
16 Call/Engage → "Kuze"
17 Call/Engage 2 times
18 Use Phone
Correct answer: Maybe I'll wait until it's an emergency.
Using the phone will cause the battery to die. This will not affect future events.
19 Think
20 Look/Examine → "Surroundings"
21 Think 2 times
22 Call/Engage
23 Ask/Listen
24 Driver: Ask/Listen 2 times
25 Driver: Think
26 Driver: Ask/Listen → "Eisuke's case"
27 Driver: Ask/Listen → "Observations?" 2 times
28 Driver: Ask/Listen
29 Driver: Ask/Listen → "Observations?" 2 times
30 Driver: Ask/Listen → "The motorcycle"
31 Driver: Think
Correct answer: (It must be for some other reason.)
32 Driver: Ask/Listen → "Observations?"
33 Driver: Ask/Listen
Let's hear it. → Scene ends after the conversation
Nah, no thanks. → Scene ends immediately

Minami Daisan Junior High School

1 Eager student: Ask/Listen 2 times
2 Eager student: Ask/Listen → "About Eisuke", "Observations?" 1 time each
3 Eager student: Think
4 Eager student: Ask/Listen → "About the school" 2 times
5 Eager student: Ask/Listen
6 Eager student: Think
7 Eager student: Look/Examine → "Where?" → Eager student
Emio Chapter 2 Eager Student
8 Call/Engage → "Female students"
9 Female students: Ask/Listen
10 Female students: Ask/Listen → "About Eisuke", "About the school" 1 time each
11 Female students: Ask/Listen → "Observations?" 2 times
12 Female students: Ask/Listen → "About Eisuke"
13 Female students: Ask/Listen → "Observations?"
14 Female students: Ask/Listen → "About Megumi"
15 Female students: Think
16 Female students: Ask/Listen 3 times
17 Female students: Call/Engage → "Megumi"
18 Female students: Ask/Listen → "About Eisuke", "About the school" 1 time each
19 Female students: Ask/Listen → "About Megumi" 3 times
20 Female students: Ask/Listen → "Observations?"
21 Female students: Ask/Listen
22 Female students: Ask/Listen → "Observations?"
Correct answer: How in the world could I do that?
No effect on future events.
23 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen 2 times
24 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen → "About Eisuke", "About the school", "About Megumi", "About Kohei", "Observations?" 1 time each
25 Fukuyama: Think
26 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen → "About Megumi"
27 Think
28 Travel

Utsugi Detective Agency

1 Protagonist: Ask/Listen
2 Utsugi: Ask/Listen 3 times
3 Ayumi: Ask/Listen
4 Review
Correct answers:
1. We can't yet be sure if he had anything to do with the killings.
2. We can't be sure if there's any connection between this murder and the ones from 18 years ago.
3. Enter "Emio" or "The Smiling Man" into the text box.

Chapter 3: The Language of Flowers Walkthrough

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Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2
Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5
Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8
Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11
Chapter 12 Tips and Guides About the Game

Yukariko Village

1 Look/Examine → Truck
Emio Chapter 3 Truck and Cabbages
2 Look/Examine → Cabbages
3 Call/Engage → "Villager"
4 Ask/Listen
5 Travel → "Detective Kuze's family home"

Detective Kuze's Family Home

1 Call/Engage
2 Look/Examine → "Where?" → House, Front door, Mailbox, Window, Clothesline, Grass 1 time each
3 Think
4 Use Phone
5 Travel
6 Tayama: Ask/Listen 2 times
Correct answer: (I'll be honest and say who I am.)
No effect on future events.
7 Tayama: Ask/Listen
8 Tayama: Think
9 Tayama: Ask/Listen → "About Yoshie" 1 time, "Kuze siblings" 2 times, "Observations?" 1 time
10 Tayama: Ask/Listen → "About Yoshie" 3 times
11 Tayama: Look/Examine → "Where?" → House
Emio Chapter 3 House Examine 2
12 Tayama: Ask/Listen
13 Tayama: Ask/Listen → "Observations?"
14 Tayama: Ask/Listen → "About Kuze" 3 times
15 Tayama: Think
16 Tayama: Ask/Listen → "About Yoshie"
17 Tayama: Travel → "Yukariko Relax"
18 Tayama: Take → "Bag"
19 Tayama: Travel → "Yukariko Relax"

Relax Yukariko Village

1 Call/Engage
2 Ask/Listen 3 times
3 Look/Examine → Surroundings
4 Travel
5 Think
6 Ask/Listen
7 Think
8 Travel → "Go inside"
9 Ask/Listen 2 times
10 Call/Engage → "Yoshie"
11 Look/Examine → "Surroundings"
12 Look/Examine → "Where?" → Old woman
Emio Chapter 3 Old Woman
13 Yoshie: Ask/Listen
14 Yoshie: Ask/Listen
Correct answer: No, I haven't told her.
No effect on future events.
15 Yoshie: Ask/Listen 2 times
16 Yoshie: Ask/Listen → "Kuze siblings", "Observations?" 1 time each
17 Yoshie: Look/Examine → "Where?" → Yoshie's face
Emio Chapter 3 Yoshie Face
18 Yoshie: Ask/Listen → "Observations?"
19 Yoshie: Ask/Listen → "About Makoto"
20 Yoshie: Ask/Listen → "About Junko"
21 Yoshie: Ask/Listen → "About Makoto"
22 Yoshie: Ask/Listen → "About Junko"
23 Yoshie: Ask/Listen → "About Makoto"
24 Yoshie: Ask/Listen → "Observations?"
25 Yoshie: Think
26 Yoshie: Look/Examine → "Where?" → Vase
Emio Chapter 3 Vase Purple Flowers
27 Yoshie: Ask/Listen → Eggplant flowers
28 Yoshie: Ask/Listen 2 times
29 Yoshie: Think
30 Yoshie: Ask/Listen 2 times
31 Yoshie: Travel → "Utsugi Detective Agency"

Utsugi Detective Agency

1 Review
Correct answers:
1. Because Makoto picked the eggplant flowers.
2. Junko Kuze → Page 4 → "bookmark containing a pressed eggplant flower"
3. The house will be demolished soon.

Chapter 4: A Suspect Walkthrough

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Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2
Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5
Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8
Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11
Chapter 12 Tips and Guides About the Game

Utsugi Detective Agency

1 Use Phone
2 Travel → "Library"

City Library

1 Think
2 Use Phone → "Phone contacts" → "Mr. Utsugi"
3 Travel
4 Look/Examine → "Where?" → Condensed Edition (January/February)
4 Look/Examine → "Where?" → Condensed Edition (March/April)
5 Look/Examine → "Where?" → Condensed Edition (May/June) 2 times
6 Look/Examine → "Where?" → Condensed Edition (July/August), Condensed Edition (September/October), Condensed Edition (November/December)
Correct answer: July
7 Think 2 times
8 Look/Examine → "The first case"
9 Look/Examine → "Suspects" 2 times
10 Think
11 Review
Correct answers:
1. Ayaka Hashizume
2. Manabu Hashizume
3. The Missing Man
4. Enter "fire" into the text box.
5. Enter "blood" into the text box.
12 Think

Planet Coffee

1 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen 4 times
2 Fukuyama: Take → "Ayumi's milk tea"
3 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen 3 times
4 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen → "About Eisuke" 2 times, "Observations?" 2 times
5 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen → "About Eisuke"
6 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen → "Grades"
7 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen
8 Fukuyama: Think
9 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen → "Grades"
10 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen 2 times
11 Fukuyama: Think
12 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen → "About Megumi" 2 times
13 Fukuyama: Think
14 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen
15 Fukuyama: Think
16 Fukuyama: Look/Examine → "Where?" → Fukuyama
Emio Chapter 4 Fukuyama
17 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen → "About Megumi"
Correct answer: (It would mean Megumi knows the killer!)
18 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen → "About Megumi" 3 times
19 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen → "Observations?"
20 Fukuyama: Take → "The bill"

Utsugi Detective Agency

1 Ayumi: Ask/Listen
2 Ayumi: Review
Correct answers:
1. Getting into a private school.
2. We don't know.
3 Ayumi: Look/Examine → "Where?" → Ayumi
Emio Chapter 4 Ayumi
4 Ayumi: Ask/Listen

Chapter 5: The Paper Bag Walkthrough

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Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2
Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5
Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8
Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11
Chapter 12 Tips and Guides About the Game

Utsugi Detective Agency / Highway

1 Travel → "Library"
2 Kamihara: Ask/Listen
3 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "Kuze", "Observations?" 1 time each
4 Kamihara: Think
5 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "Observations?"
6 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "Kuze" 3 times
7 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "Kamihara" 2 times
8 Kamihara: Think
9 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "Kamihara"
10 Kamihara: Think
11 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "Kuze"
12 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "Observations?"
13 Kamihara: Think
14 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "Kuze"
15 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "Observations?"
16 Kamihara: Ask/Listen 3 times
17 Kamihara: Think
18 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "Kuze"
19 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "Observations?"
Correct answer: While we were still talking at the bus stop.
20 Kamihara: Think
21 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "Kuze"
22 Kamihara: Look/Examine → "Where?" → Kamihara's face
Emio Chapter 5 Kamihara Face
23 Kamihara: Call/Engage → "Kamihara"
24 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "Kuze" 2 times
25 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "Kamihara"
26 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "Kuze"
27 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "Observations?"
28 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "Makoto"
29 Kamihara: Ask/Listen

Police Station

1 Kuze: Ask/Listen 2 times
2 Kuze: Ask/Listen → "Makoto" 1 time, "Observations?" 2 times
3 Kuze: Ask/Listen 2 times
4 Kuze: Think 2 times
5 Kuze: Ask/Listen
6 Kuze: Look/Examine → "Where?" → Kuze's face
Emio Chapter 5 Kuze Face
7 Kuze: Ask/Listen → "Makoto"
8 Kuze: Think
9 Kuze: Ask/Listen → "Motorcycle" 2 times
10 Kuze: Think
11 Kuze: Ask/Listen → "Cab"
12 Kuze: Ask/Listen
13 Kuze: Look/Examine → "Where?" → Kuze's face
Emio Chapter 5 Kuze Face 2
14 Review
Correct answers:
1. (Very likely to be connected.)
2. (The first victim might have been killed by someone else.)
15 Think
16 Use Phone
17 Think
18 Review
Correct answers:
1. (They talk about candy that they loved when they were little kids.)
2. Enter "motorcycles" into the text box.
19 Kamada: Ask/Listen

Near Utsugi Detective Agency

1 Look/Examine → "Where?" → Pharmacy, Pharmacy mascot, Kanda bookstore
2 Use Phone
If you do anything else, you'll miss the call, and will have to call Ayumi back.
3 Ayumi: Ask/Listen → "Eisuke's case" 1 time, "Observations?" 2 times
4 Ayumi: Think
5 Ayumi: Call/Engage → "Ayumi"
6 Ayumi: Review
Correct answers:
1. Asphyxiation from being strangled with a cord-like object.
2. The Smiling Man → "paper bag on his head with a smiling face drawn on it"
3. The Smiling Man
4. Ayaka Hashizume → "Serial Girl Murders"
5. Ayaka Hashizume, Sachiko Takagi, Mika Inoue
6. The Missing Man, Makoto Kuze
7. Getting into a good high school
8. Matched to the second and third bags found in the murders 18 years ago.
9. It was different from the paper bags found on other victims.
Emio Chapter 5 Paper Bag on His Head
Emio Chapter 5 Serial Girl Murders

Chapter 6: Existence Walkthrough

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Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2
Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5
Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8
Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11
Chapter 12 Tips and Guides About the Game

Morimoto Family Home

1 Megumi's Mother: Ask/Listen
2 Megumi's Mother: Ask/Listen → "About Megumi"
3 Megumi's Mother: Ask/Listen → "About Eisuke" 2 times
4 Megumi's Mother: Ask/Listen → "Observations?"
5 Megumi's Mother: Ask/Listen → "About Megumi" 2 times
6 Megumi's Mother: Think
7 Megumi's Mother: Ask/Listen → "About Megumi"
8 Megumi's Mother: Ask/Listen → "Observations?"
9 Megumi's Mother: Ask/Listen → "About Megumi"
10 Megumi's Mother: Ask/Listen → "Observations?"
11 Megumi's Mother: Ask/Listen → "About Fukuyama" 2 times
12 Megumi's Mother: Ask/Listen → "About Megumi"
13 Megumi's Mother: Ask/Listen 2 times
14 Megumi's Mother: Think
15 Megumi's Mother: Look/Examine → "Where?" → The middle Picture
Emio Chapter 6 Middle Picture
16 Megumi's Mother: Think
17 Megumi's Mother: Ask/Listen
18 Megumi's Mother: Think
19 Megumi's Mother: Travel → "Utsugi Detective Agency"
20 Megumi's Mother: Ask/Listen → "About Kohei" 4 times
21 Megumi's Mother: Ask/Listen
22 Megumi's Mother: Travel → "Utsugi Detective Agency"

Utsugi Detective Agency

1 Ayumi: Ask/Listen
Correct answer: You don't need to talk to him again just yet.
2 Ayumi: Think

Police Station

1 Megumi: Look/Examine → "Where?" → Megumi
Emio Chapter 6 Megumi
2 Megumi: Ask/Listen
3 Megumi: Call/Engage → "Ayumi"
4 Megumi: Ask/Listen
5 Megumi: Think
6 Megumi: Look/Examine → "Where?" → Megumi
Emio Chapter 6 Megumi 2
7 Megumi: Think
8 Megumi: Look/Examine → "Where?" → Fukuyama
Emio Chapter 6 Fukuyama
9 Megumi: Ask/Listen 2 times
10 Megumi: Ask/Listen → "About Fukuyama"
11 Megumi: Ask/Listen 3 times
12 Megumi: Ask/Listen → "About Eisuke"
13 Megumi: Ask/Listen → "About Megumi" 3 times
14 Megumi: Ask/Listen → "Observations?"
15 Megumi: Ask/Listen → "About Megumi"
16 Megumi: Ask/Listen → "Spell" 2 times
17 Megumi: Ask/Listen → "The Smiling Man"

Utsugi Detective Agency

1 Ayumi: Review
Correct answers:
1. What she saw on the talk show.
2. Recite a spell.
3. The Smiling Man → Page 3 → "The paper bag found on Eisuke Sasaki's head looked just like the one Megumi saw on the Smiling Man."
4. Tsubasa Fukuyama
5. Hiromi Morimoto
6. Enter "suicide" into the text box.
7. The Smiling Man
8. The Smiling Man
Emio Chapter 6 Paper Bag Looked the Same

Chapter 7: Irumo Village Walkthrough

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Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2
Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5
Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8
Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11
Chapter 12 Tips and Guides About the Game

Police Station

1 Police Officer: Ask/Listen
2 Kamada: Ask/Listen
3 Kamada: Ask/Listen → "About Tsuzuki"
4 Kamada: Ask/Listen → "Observations?"
5 Kamada: Ask/Listen
6 Kamada: Think
7 Kamada: Ask/Listen
8 Kamada: Take → "Sketch"
9 Kamada: Travel
Correct answer: I'm going to Koufuku Station.

Koufuku Station Shopping Center

1 Call/Engage → "Who?" → Female shopper, College student
Continue to step 2
Look/Examine → Surroundings
Call/Engage → "Who?" → Familiar man
Talk with Detective Kamihara.
Skip to step 10 (recommended route)
[Above: How to skip to step 10]
2 Call/Engage → "Who?" → Businessman
3 Businessman: Show → "Minoru Tsuzuki sketch"
4 Call/Engage → "Who?" → Teen with coffee
5 Look/Examine → Surroundings
6 Call/Engage → "Who?" → Old man
7 Call/Engage → "Who?" → Old woman
8 Old woman: Show → "Minoru Tsuzuki sketch"
9 Think
10 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "About Kamihara", "About Kamada", "Observations?" 1 time each
11 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "About Kuze"
Correct answer: Working separately today and you're meeting up later.
You can only choose this option if you chose to Call/Engage the "Familiar man" (Kamihara) before the conversation.
12 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "About Kuze"
13 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "Observations?"
14 Kamihara: Ask/Listen
15 Kamihara: Think
16 Kamihara: Look/Examine → "Where?" → Kamihara's face
Emio Chapter 7 Kamihara Face
17 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "About Kamihara"
18 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "Details of investigation"
19 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "Observations?"
20 Kamihara: Show → "Minoru Tsuzuki sketch"
21 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "About Kamada"
22 Kamihara: Ask/Listen 2 times
23 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "About Kuze"
24 Kamihara: Think
25 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "About Kuze"
26 Kamihara: Think 2 times
27 Kamihara: Ask/Listen
28 Travel

Planet Coffee

1 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen → "About Fukuyama"
2 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen → "About Megumi" 2 times
3 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen → "About Fukuyama"
4 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen
5 Fukuyama: Think 2 times
6 Fukuyama: Look/Examine → "Where?" → Fukuyama
Emio Chapter 7 Fukuyama
7 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen → "About Fukuyama"
8 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen → "About Megumi" 2 times
9 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen → "Observations?"
10 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen → "Urban legends"
11 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen → "About Fukuyama"
12 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen → "The Smiling Man"
13 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen → "About Megumi"
14 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen → "The Smiling Man"
15 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen → "Observations?"
16 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen → "The Smiling Man"
17 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen → "Observations?"
18 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen
19 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen → "Paper-bag story" 2 times
20 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen → "Observations?"
21 Fukuyama: Think
22 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen
23 Fukuyama: Travel → "Utsugi Detective Agency"

Utsugi Detective Agency

1 Ayumi: Ask/Listen → "About Fukuyama"
2 Ayumi: Review
Correct answers:
1. 43 years old.
2. Kamihara → Page 3 → "didn't share the info about the motorcycle"
3. Makoto Kuze
4. Yoshie Kuze
Emio Chapter 7 Didn
3 Ayumi: Think

Chapter 8: Brother & Sister Walkthrough

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Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2
Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5
Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8
Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11
Chapter 12 Tips and Guides About the Game

Minami Daisan Junior High School

1 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen 2 times
2 Fukuyama: Travel
3 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen
4 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen → "About Megumi", "Observations?" 1 time each
5 Fukuyama: Think
6 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen → "About Kohei"
7 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen → "About Ayumi"
8 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen → "Observations?"
9 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen → "About Ayumi"
10 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen → "Naginata club" 2 times
Correct answer: Because Tachibana joined the club!
11 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen → "About Ayumi" 2 times
12 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen 3 times
13 Fukuyama: Think
14 Fukuyama: Show → "Superior friendship with Ayumi"
15 Kohei: Ask/Listen → "About Eisuke" 2 times, "Observations?" 2 times
16 Kohei: Ask/Listen → "About Eisuke" 2 times
17 Kohei: Think
18 Kohei: Ask/Listen → "About Megumi"
19 Kohei: Ask/Listen → "About Eisuke"
20 Kohei: Ask/Listen → "About Megumi"
21 Kohei: Think
Correct answer: Back off on the questioning.
22 Kohei: Ask/Listen → "Observations?"
23 Kohei: Ask/Listen 5 times
24 Kohei: Think
25 Look/examine: Talkative student, Quiet student
26 Call/Engage
27 Think 2 times
28 Travel → "Relax Yukariko Village"

Relax Yukariko Village

1 Yoshie: Ask/Listen 2 times
2 Yoshie: Ask/Listen → "About Makoto" 2 times, "About Junko" 2 times, "Observations?" 1 time
3 Yoshie: Ask/Listen → "About Junko" 2 times
4 Yoshie: Ask/Listen
5 Yoshie: Ask/Listen → "Album" 2 times
6 Yoshie: Ask/Listen → "Observations?"
7 Yoshie: Ask/Listen
8 Yoshie: Look/Examine → "Where?" → Each of the 4 pictures
9 Yoshie: Look/Examine → "Where?" → Piggyback picture
Emio Chapter 8 Piggyback and Entrance Ceremony Picture
10 Yoshie: Ask/Listen → "Hair clip"
11 Yoshie: Ask/Listen → "About Junko" 2 times
12 Yoshie: Think
13 Yoshie: Ask/Listen → "Observations?"
14 Yoshie: Look/Examine → "Where?" → Entrance ceremony picture
15 Yoshie: Take → "Makoto's picture"
16 Yoshie: Ask/Listen → "About Makoto", "About Junko" 2 times each
17 Yoshie: Ask/Listen → "Motorcycle"
18 Yoshie: Think
19 Yoshie: Travel
20 Think
21 Open Notebook
Correct answer: Kimiharu Kamada
22 Travel → "Police Station"

Police Station

1 Kamada: Ask/Listen 3 times
2 Kamada: Ask/Listen → "Sketch"
3 Kamada: Show → "Makoto's picture"
4 Sketch Artist: Show → "Makoto's picture"
5 Sketch Artist: Ask/Listen
6 Sketch Artist: Think
7 Sketch Artist: Ask/Listen → "About Kuze", "About the sketch artist", "Observations?" 1 time each
8 Sketch Artist: Ask/Listen → "About Kuze" 2 times
9 Sketch Artist: Think
10 Sketch Artist: Travel → "Utsugi Detective Agency"
11 Use Phone

Chapter 9: A Visitor Walkthrough

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Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2
Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5
Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8
Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11
Chapter 12 Tips and Guides About the Game

Koufuku Station Shopping Center / Shoko Bar

1 Look/Examine → "Where?" → Shoko Bar
Emio Chapter 9 Shoko Bar
2 Travel → "Shoko Bar"
3 Kamihara・Mama Shoko: Ask/Listen
4 Kamihara・Mama Shoko: Look/Examine → "My glass"
5 Kamihara・Mama Shoko: Look/Examine → "Kamihara's glass"
6 Kamihara・Mama Shoko: Take → "The lead"
7 Kamihara・Mama Shoko: Ask/Listen
8 Kamihara・Mama Shoko: Ask/Listen → "About Kamihara", "About Mama Shoko", "Observations?" 1 time each
9 Kamihara・Mama Shoko: Ask/Listen → "About Mama Shoko"
10 Kamihara・Mama Shoko: Call/Engage → "Mama Shoko"
11 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "About Kamihara", "About Mama Shoko", "Observations?" 1 time each
12 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "Observations?"
13 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "Mama Shoko"
14 Kamihara・Mama Shoko: Call/Engage → "Mama Shoko"
15 Mama Shoko: Ask/Listen → "About Mama Shoko", "About Kamihara", "Observations?" 1 time each
16 Mama Shoko: Ask/Listen → "Eisuke's case", "Murders from 18 years ago" 1 time each
17 Mama Shoko: Ask/Listen → "Eisuke's case" 2 times
18 Mama Shoko: Ask/Listen → "About Mama Shoko"
19 Mama Shoko: Ask/Listen
20 Mama Shoko: Think
21 Mama Shoko: Look/Examine → "Where?" → Food hygiene manager certificate
Emio Chapter 9 Food Hygiene Manager Certificate
22 Mama Shoko: Ask/Listen
Correct answer: Michiyo
23 Mama Shoko: Ask/Listen 4 times
24 Mama Shoko: Show → "Minoru Tsuzuki sketch", "Makoto Kuze sketch" 1 time each
25 Mama Shoko: Think
26 Mama Shoko: Travel
27 Kamihara: Ask/Listen

Detective Kuze's Apartment

1 Think
2 Look/Examine → Surroundings
3 Look/Examine → "Where?" → Tie
Emio Chapter 9 Tie
4 Take → "Box"
5 Think 2 times

Utsugi Detective Agency

1 Ayumi: Review
Correct answers:
1. A hair clip taped to the paper.
2. Her mother.
2 Ayumi: Ask/Listen
3 Ayumi: Think 2 times
Correct answer: Emiko
4 Ayumi: Think

Chapter 10: Minoru Tsuzuki Walkthrough

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Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5
Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8
Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11
Chapter 12 Tips and Guides About the Game

Utsugi Detective Agency

1 Review
Correct answers:
1. I saw someone wearing a similar tie.
2. Daisuke Kamihara, Shunsuke Utsugi, Others → Eager Junior High School Student
3. The boy at Minami Daisan Junior High School.
2 Use Phone → "Phone contacts" → "Fukuyama"

Koufuku Station Shopping Center / Shoko Bar

1 Call/Engage → "Who?" → Old man, Curry fan, Teen with coffee
2 Call/Engage → "Who?" → Tissue lady
3 Show → "Minoru Tsuzuki sketch", "Makoto Kuze sketch" 1 time each
4 Look/Examine → "Surroundings"
5 Call/Engage → "Who?" → Musician, Ramen shop employee
6 Think
7 Travel → "Shoko Bar"
8 Ask/Listen
9 Travel → "Inside the bar"
10 Mama Shoko: Ask/Listen
11 Mama Shoko: Ask/Listen → "Murders from 18 years ago", "Observations?" 1 time each
12 Mama Shoko: Show → "Minoru Tsuzuki sketch"
13 Mama Shoko: Ask/Listen → "About Tsuzuki"
14 Mama Shoko: Show → "Minoru Tsuzuki sketch"
15 Mama Shoko: Ask/Listen → "About Tsuzuki"
16 Mama Shoko: Ask/Listen → "About Ayaka" 2 times
17 Mama Shoko: Ask/Listen → "About the fire"
18 Mama Shoko: Ask/Listen → "About Ayaka"
19 Mama Shoko: Ask/Listen → "Observations?"
20 Mama Shoko: Ask/Listen
21 Mama Shoko: Travel → "Kamematsu"

Kamematsu Shopping District

1 Call/Engage → "Who?" → Woman in leopard print
Emio Chapter 10 Woman in Leopard Print
2 Woman in leopard print: Show → "Minoru Tsuzuki sketch", "Makoto Kuze sketch" 1 time each
3 Woman in leopard print: Travel → "Todoroki Motors"

Minami Daisan Junior High School

1 Use Phone → "Phone contacts" → "Fukuyama"
2 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen
3 Fukuyama: Think
4 Fukuyama: Look/Examine → "Where?" → Fukuyama's face
Emio Chapter 10 Fukuyama Face
5 Fukuyama: Travel → "Utsugi Detective Agency"

Planet Coffee

1 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen 2 times
2 Fukuyama: Take → "Fork"
3 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen → "About Fukuyama" 2 times
4 Fukuyama: Think
5 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen → "About Megumi"
6 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen → "About Eisuke" 2 times
7 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen → "About Fukuyama"
8 Fukuyama: Call/Engage
9 Fukuyama: Ask/Listen

Todoroki Motors

1 Call/Engage
2 Woman: Ask/Listen
3 Mr. and Mrs. Todoroki: Ask/Listen
4 Mr. and Mrs. Todoroki: Travel → "Todoroki's living room"
5 Mr. and Mrs. Todoroki: Ask/Listen → "About Tsuzuki", "Observations?" 1 time each
6 Mr. and Mrs. Todoroki: Show → "Minoru Tsuzuki sketch"
7 Mr. and Mrs. Todoroki: Ask/Listen → "About Tsuzuki"
8 Mr. and Mrs. Todoroki: Ask/Listen → "Meeting 20 years ago"
9 Mr. and Mrs. Todoroki: Ask/Listen → "About Tsuzuki" 2 times
10 Mr. and Mrs. Todoroki: Ask/Listen
11 Mr. and Mrs. Todoroki: Ask/Listen → "Meeting 20 years ago"
12 Mr. and Mrs. Todoroki: Ask/Listen → "About Tsuzuki" 2 times
13 Mr. and Mrs. Todoroki: Look/Examine → "Where?" → Mr. Todoroki's face
Emio Chapter 10 Mr Todoroki Face
14 Mr. and Mrs. Todoroki: Ask/Listen → "About Tsuzuki" 2 times
15 Mr. and Mrs. Todoroki: Ask/Listen → "Observations?" 2 times
16 Mr. and Mrs. Todoroki: Ask/Listen → "About Tsuzuki"
17 Mr. and Mrs. Todoroki: Ask/Listen → "About the sister"
18 Mr. and Mrs. Todoroki: Ask/Listen
19 Mr. and Mrs. Todoroki: Ask/Listen → "About the car" 2 times
20 Mr. and Mrs. Todoroki: Ask/Listen → "About the sister"
21 Mr. and Mrs. Todoroki: Ask/Listen 2 times
22 Mr. and Mrs. Todoroki: Think
23 Mr. and Mrs. Todoroki: Ask/Listen → "About Ayaka"
24 Mr. and Mrs. Todoroki: Think
25 Mr. and Mrs. Todoroki: Ask/Listen 2 times
26 Mr. and Mrs. Todoroki: Think
Correct answer: There's no point in talking about it.
27 Mr. and Mrs. Todoroki: Travel → "Utsugi Detective Agency"

Utsugi Detective Agency

1 Ayumi: Review
Correct answers:
1. Still missing.
2. To give his sister a ride in his own car.
3. Mr. Todoroki → "car"
4. Mr. Todoroki → "sheet-metal shears"
5. Minoru Tsuzuki
2 Ayumi: Think 2 times
3 Ayumi: Look/Examine → "Tie"
4 Ayumi: Think

Chapter 11: Suspicion Walkthrough

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Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5
Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8
Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11
Chapter 12 Tips and Guides About the Game

Koufuku City

1 Kamihara: Ask/Listen
2 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "Tie"
3 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "About Kuze"
4 Kamihara: Ask/Listen
5 Kamihara: Think
6 Kamihara: Ask/Listen → "Motorcycle", "Hair pin", "The Smiling Man" 1 time each
7 Think 2 times
8 Travel → "Todoroki Motors"

Todoroki Motors

1 Look/Examine → "Where?" → Sign
2 Think
3 Travel → "Kamematsu Station"

Kamematsu Shopping District

1 Call/Engage → "Who?" → Woman shopper, Produce marker owner, Fishmonger
2 Call/Engage → "Who?" → Children
3 Call/Engage → "Who?" → Man on phone
4 Call/Engage → "Who?" → Children
5 Children: Ask/Listen
6 Children: Ask/Listen → "Haunted apartment"
7 Children: Ask/Listen → "The Smiling Man"
8 Travel → Koufuku Station

Road Construction Site

1 Call/Engage → "Who?" → Passerby, Site foreman 1 time each
Emio Chapter 11 Road Construction Site
2 Call/Engage → "Who?" → Security Guard
3 Site Foreman: Ask/Listen
4 Site Foreman: Ask/Listen → "About Tsuzuki"
5 Site Foreman: Ask/Listen → "Observations?"
6 Site Foreman: Show → "Minoru Tsuzuki sketch", "Makoto Kuze sketch"
7 Site Foreman: Ask/Listen → "About Makoto"
8 Site Foreman: Ask/Listen → "About Tsuzuki"
9 Site Foreman: Ask/Listen → "Observations?" 3 times
10 Site Foreman: Think
11 Site Foreman: Show → "Makoto Kuze sketch"
12 Site Foreman: Show → "Both sketches"
13 Site Foreman: Ask/Listen → "About Tsuzuki" 2 times
14 Think
15 Travel → "Todoroki Motors"

Todoroki Motors

1 Mrs. Todoroki: Ask/Listen
2 Mrs. Todoroki: Think
Correct answer: I should be honest with her and ask for her cooperation.
3 Mrs. Todoroki: Ask/Listen
4 Mrs. Todoroki: Ask/Listen → "About Tsuzuki", "The Smiling Man", "Observations?"
5 Mrs. Todoroki: Ask/Listen
6 Mrs. Todoroki: Call/Engage
7 Mr. and Mrs. Todoroki: Ask/Listen 2 times
8 Mr. and Mrs. Todoroki: Think
9 Mr. and Mrs. Todoroki: Look/Examine → "Where?" → Mr. Todoroki's face
Emio Chapter 11 Mr Todoroki Face
10 Mr. and Mrs. Todoroki: Show → "Boy Detective skills"
11 Mr. and Mrs. Todoroki: Ask/Listen 2 times
12 Mr. and Mrs. Todoroki: Ask/Listen → "About Tsuzuki", "The Smiling Man", "Observations?" 1 time each
13 Mr. Todoroki: Show → "Makoto Kuze sketch", "Minoru Tsuzuki sketch"
14 Mr. Todoroki: Show → "Makoto Kuze sketch"
15 Mr. and Mrs. Todoroki: Ask/Listen → "Observations?"
16 Mr. and Mrs. Todoroki: Think
17 Mr. and Mrs. Todoroki: Travel → "Minoru's apartment"

Tsuzuki's Apartment

1 Look/Examine → "Where?" → Door, Wall, Rope, Ground, Window, Stairs 1 time each
2 Think
3 Call/Engage
Look/Examine → "Where?" → ???
No difference between these 2 options.
4 Old Man: Ask/Listen
5 Old Man: Ask/Listen → "Apartment", "About Tsuzuki", "The Smiling Man", "Observations?" 1 time each
6 Old Man: Ask/Listen → "About Tsuzuki"
7 Old Man: Show → "Minoru Tsuzuki sketch", "Makoto Kuze sketch"
8 Old Man: Think
9 Old Man: Travel
10 Old Man: Ask/Listen 2 times
11 Old Man: Show → "Minoru Tsuzuki sketch", "Makoto Kuze sketch"
12 Old Man: Ask/Listen 10 times
You can stop when he begins alternating between saying 'I hear footsteps' and 'I forgot the song'.
13 Old Man: Call/Engage
14 Old Man: Think
15 Old Man: Travel
16 Old Man: Travel → Road construction site

Road Construction Site

1 Think
2 Travel → Koufuku Station

Koufuku Station Shopping District

1 Mama Shoko: Ask/Listen
2 Mama Shoko: Ask/Listen → "About Kamihara"
3 Mama Shoko: Ask/Listen
4 Travel → Kamematsu Station

Kamematsu Shopping District

1 Call/Engage → "Who?" → Children
2 Children: Ask/Listen 3 times
3 Children: Travel → Road construction site

Road Construction Site

1 Call/Engage
2 Site Foreman: Show 2 times
3 Site Foreman: Ask/Listen
4 Site Foreman and Driver: Show → "Both sketches"
5 Site Foreman and Driver: Think
6 Site Foreman and Driver: Ask/Listen
7 Site Foreman and Driver: Ask/Listen → "About Tsuzuki", "About Makoto", "Observations?" 1 time each
8 Site Foreman and Driver: Ask/Listen → "About Tsuzuki"
9 Site Foreman and Driver: Ask/Listen 2 times
10 Site Foreman and Driver: Travel → "Yamanba Pass"

Chapter 12: The Truth Walkthrough

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Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2
Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5
Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8
Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11
Chapter 12 Tips and Guides About the Game

Yamanba Pass

1 Look/Examine → "Where?" → Animal tracks
Emio Chapter 12 Animal Tracks
2 Travel → "Follow tracks"
3 Look/Examine → "Where?" → Footprints
Emio Chapter 12 Footprints
4 Travel → "Continue following tracks"
5 Look/Examine → "Where?" → Trampled thicket
Emio Chapter 12 Trampled Thicket
6 Travel → "Continue following tracks"
7 Look/Examine → "Where?" → Road on the left
Emio Chapter 12 Road on the Left
8 Travel → "Go left"
If you Go right, you'll watch a cutscene and then have to choose to Go left anyway.
9 Look/Examine → "Where?" → Tied ribbon
10 Travel → "Follow the landmark"
11 Look/Examine → "Where?" → Left Sign on post
Emio Chapter 12 Sign on Post
12 Travel → "Go left"
13 Look/Examine → "Where?" → Jizo
Emio Chapter 12 Jizo
14 Travel → "Behind the Jizo Statue"

Abandoned Village

1 Look/Examine → "Where?" → All four abandoned houses
Emio Chapter 12 Abandoned Houses
2 Look/Examine → "Surroundings"
3 Think 2 times
4 Travel → "Within the abandoned village"
5 Kuze: Ask/Listen → "About Kuze", "About Tsuzuki" 1 time each
6 Kuze: Look/Examine → "Where?" → Kuze's face
Emio Chapter 12 Kuze Face
7 Kuze: Show → "Minoru Tsuzuki sketch", "Makoto Kuze sketch"
8 Kuze: Ask/Listen 2 times
9 Kuze: Think
10 Kuze: Ask/Listen → "About Kuze"
11 Kuze: Ask/Listen
12 Kuze: Think
13 Kuze: Ask/Listen
14 Kuze: Save/Quit Investigation
15 Kuze: Ask/Listen
16 Kuze: Look/Examine → "Fallen man"
17 Kuze: Ask/Listen
18 Kuze: Think
19 Kuze: Look/Examine → "Surroundings"
After this step, the ending of the game will play. An extra story with minimal player interaction, "Minoru", is unlocked after the credits.

Tips and Guides

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Tips and Guides

Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club Tips and Guides

Tips and Guides
Release Time and Countdown How Long to Beat

About Emio The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club

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Release Date August 29, 2024
Price $49.99 - Standard Edition
Release Versions Physical / Digital
Game File Size 5.4 GB
No. of Players 1
Developer Nintendo
Publisher Nintendo
Genre Point-and-Click Adventure
Official Site Nintendo eShop Page

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