Pokemon Black and White Easter egg: Game Freak's office in Hiun City

Hiun City is easily the largest city in any Pokemon game to date, to the extent that itactually feels like a real city. We haven't even finished exploring it yet, but we just came across something we had to share. Amidst the impressive skyscrapers and hustle and bustle of pedestrians, Game Freak has an office tucked away down one of the side streets. Does this mean they've relocated from their previous office on the 3rd floor of Kanto's Celadon Condominiums/Mansion? This location is definitely much more impressive than the original (they havea whole building now!), so maybe this was the real HQ all along.

Let's go inside, intothe developer's offices and make NPC small chat with some of the people who worked on the game.


Above: Outside the office


Above: The lobby. Where's the receptionist?


Above: The officeis on the 22nd floor


Above: The sound designer. How many new sounds did you notice?


Above: The game director! We hope he has a cool diploma for us when we complete the National Pokedex

Sep 23, 2010

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