Nintendo releases a mysterious teaser trailer called Emio

Nintendo games are usually fun, colorful, and based on their well-known franchises. Horror is not one of the Japanese company’s favorite genres, but that could change. Today Nintendo has released a mysterious trailer for the game. teaser trailer titled Emio that has not taken long to attract attention. The footage is accompanied by the hashtag #WhoIsEmio?

He teaser Emio trailer has been posted on all of Nintendo’s YouTube accounts and various social networks, so we are faced with a game of global reach and not a project just for Japan, where sometimes titles come out that do not go beyond their borders. Gematsu He adds that the Japanese version of the trailer is titled Smiling Man. Beyond that, we can only add that it is rated 18+ by PEGI, which is not very common for Nintendo games. The US version is rated M for people 17 and older.

He teaser It doesn’t even reach 20 seconds and begins with the following warning: “This video contains images that may be disturbing to some people. Viewers’ discretion is advised.” In addition to a smiling man, a few images appear throughout the footage, and in one of them, a hand can be seen. In addition, at times it seems that the smiling face becomes somewhat more sinister. Everything seems to indicate that we are facing a horror game that Nintendo is developing for Switch or that the company has decided to sponsor as if it were its own.

In addition to launching the teaser trailer, Nintendo Japan has opened a website where no further details about the project are revealed. The only thing that appears is the smiling man in a looping video where the man’s face changes to a less friendly one.