Tetsuya Takahashi (高橋 哲哉, Takahashi Tetsuya) (born November 18, 1966, in Shizuoka Prefecture) is a Japanese video game designer, writer and director. Takahashi worked at Square in the 90s as a graphic designer and graphic director, participating on some of their most well-received titles such as Final Fantasy V, Final Fantasy VI and Chrono Trigger, before directing and co-writing Xenogears. He left Square in 1999 to co-found Monolith Soft, where he would develop the Xenosaga and Xenoblade Chronicles series with Namco and Nintendo respectively, being the executive director of Xenoblade since the first entry in the series.
He is married to Soraya Saga, who also worked with him at Square Enix, as well as on Xenosaga and Soma Bringer.
Takahashi is one of the founders of Monolith Soft, senior director and chief creative officer at the company, as well as part of its board of directors.[1]
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system. The party fights both on foot and in a variety of mechs. TetsuyaTakahashi created Xenosaga as a spiritual successor to the Square-produced Xenogears...
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background in a private booklet for herself. Saga and her husband TetsuyaTakahashi submitted a script for Final Fantasy VII which was called "too dark"...
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monster ideas. Other notable designers include TetsuyaTakahashi, the graphic director, and Yasuyuki Honne, Tetsuya Nomura, and Yusuke Naora, who worked as field...
full motion videos produced for the game's PlayStation re-release. TetsuyaTakahashi, one of the graphic directors, drew the imperial Magitek Armors seen...
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