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    Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir/The Girl Who Stands Behind

    May 20, 2021 4 minutes

    Developer Nintendo, Mages

    Publisher Nintendo

    Format Switch

    Release Out now

    Given the current craze for relitigating murders of yesteryear, the decision to dust off cold cases from the Nintendo archives makes perfect sense. Admittedly, these are not the salacious didtheydoits of Serial or Making A Murderer, but the cut-and-dried events of two Famicom visual novels previously untranslated in the west. Released in 1988 and 1989, the duology contributed to a wave of digital detectives (begun by Yuji Hori’s in 1983) and pushed Nintendo down an uncharacteristically murky path. A world of stabbings, suicides and – gasp – smoking is far removed from the Mushroom Kingdom; it’s telling that was the work of Nintendo R&D1, and the chaotic evil of Wario. (If any mascot will go full Joe Exotic, it’s surely him.)

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