Masato Kato (加藤 正人, Katō Masato, born March 28, 1963) is a Japanese video game artist, scenario writer and director. In the early days of his career, he was credited under the pseudonyms of "Runmaru" and "Runmal".[1] He then joined Square, and was most famous for penning the script of Chrono Trigger (based on a story draft by Yuji Horii), as well as Radical Dreamers, Xenogears, Chrono Cross, Final Fantasy XI and parts of Final Fantasy VII.
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game and co-wrote the scenario, Kazuhiko Aoki produced the game, while MasatoKato wrote most of the story. The game's plot follows a group of adventurers...
System. Chrono Cross was designed primarily by scenarist and director MasatoKato, who had help from other designers who also worked on Chrono Trigger...
story planner, MasatoKato, and finalized by Akira Toriyama. While his design did not change much throughout the game's development, Kato's idea to kill...
final game in the series to involve Ishii. The story was written by MasatoKato, and the music was composed by Yoko Shimomura. The game was not a commercial...
the story's progression through text choices. Chrono Trigger writer MasatoKato both directed and wrote the main scenario. Due to his attitude at the...
designer Kyoji Koizumi, promotional artist Tomomi Kobayashi, writer MasatoKato, and composer Masashi Hamauzu. The game was chosen for localization by...
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designed by Akira Toriyama based on sketches from the story planner MasatoKato. The development team wanted a diverse cast to reflect the various eras...
Ishii. The script was written by Ryo Akagi, based on a story created by MasatoKato, and the music was composed by a group led by Kenji Ito. It is the final...
as MasatoKato had wanted to see well concluded. Some experienced players criticized the add-ons simple "fetch quest" beginning, which later Kato explained...
acting would have led to significant load times, so it was omitted. MasatoKato wrote several late-game scenes, including the Lifestream sequence and...
officially announced by the company, commentary from Chrono series developers MasatoKato, Hironobu Sakaguchi, and Takashi Tokita have confirmed early plans for...
modes supporting up to eight players. The game's story was written by MasatoKato, who wrote the plotline and designed graphics for the original Ninja...
Wright Flyer Studios. The game features the collaboration of writer MasatoKato and music composer Yasunori Mitsuda, who both worked on Xenogears and...
of Fortune and the Dice of Fate, the lead scenarist was replaced by MasatoKato, as Tomie was working on the other branches of the Mystery Dungeon series...
each with distinct backstory and speech patterns. The game's writer, MasatoKato, started with the core characters from Radical Dreamers, a rare, Japan-only...
the game in Japan. The original story draft for the game written by MasatoKato was allegedly much darker in tone and more violent than the final product...
written by the game's director Tetsuya Takahashi and its scenario writer MasatoKato. The soundtrack reached No. 55 in Japan and was generally well received...
System). Square Soft. Level/area: Credits. "Procyon Studio: Interview with MasatoKato". Cocoebiz.com. November 1999. Archived from the original on 2011-07-24...
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