Tetsuya Takahashi

Tetsuya Takahashi is a Japanese video game developer and director. He is the main director of the Xeno series and has contributed to the development of essentially all games and media associated with the series. He is married to Soraya Saga.

Biography
Takahashi was born on the 18th of November, 1966 in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. He entered the video game industry as an artist at Nihon Falcom after he had spent all his tuition money on a PC Engine. He first worked on Star Trader and then on hirst first RPG - . For some games such as , he worked together with Kunihiko Tanaka as artists. After several years working with Nihon Falcom, he joined Squaresoft in 1990, initially as an artist again. While there, he worked on several games such as  before being assigned a team to work on his own game, which would become Xenogears.

In 2001, after the release of Xenogears, Takahashi left Square and formed Monolith Soft, in large part due to his ambitious goals for the Xenogears franchise being unattainable at Square. During this period, he worked on the Xenosaga series as well as other games such as .

Monolith Soft was acquired by Nintendo in 2007. At this time Takahashi began work on the  series; he has continued to work on the series until the present day.

Relevance to the Xeno series
Beyond being the concept writer and director for almost all of the games in the Xeno series, Takahashi has contributed substantially to other aspects of the games' development. The following is a list of his contributions for each game.

Xenogears

 * Director
 * Scenario Writer
 * Artist (Character Faces Colorization)
 * Lyricist (SMALL TWO OF PIECES ~Broken Shards~)

Xenosaga Episode I

 * Director
 * Lyricist (Pain, Kokoro)

Xenosaga Episode II

 * Original Author
 * Supervisor

Xenosaga: Pied Piper

 * Story Writer

Xenosaga I & II

 * Scenario Writer

Xenosaga Episode III

 * Author
 * Music Coordinator
 * Supervisor of Scenario and Database

Xenoblade Chronicles

 * Concept
 * Executive Director
 * Scenario Writer
 * Lyricist (Ending Theme - Beyond the Sky)

Xenoblade Chronicles X

 * Concept
 * Executive Director

Xenoblade Chronicles 2

 * Executive Director
 * Scenario Writer
 * Lyricist (Drifting Soul, One Last You)

Torna ~ The Golden Country

 * Executive Director
 * Scenario Writer
 * Lyricist (A Moment of Eternity)

Xenoblade Chronicles 3

 * Concept
 * Executive Director
 * Scenario Writer
 * Lyricist (A Step Away, Where We Belong)

Future Redeemed

 * Concept
 * Executive Director
 * Scenario Writer
 * Lyricist (Future Awaits)


 * Monster graphics designer


 * Artist


 * Debugger (not credited)


 * Battle graphics designer


 * Field map designer


 * Field graphics designer


 * Graphics director

Front Mission

 * Graphics designer


 * Graphics director


 * Producer
 * Lead game designer


 * Staff


 * Senior supervisor


 * Senior supervisor


 * Supervisor
 * Cooperation


 * Original game supervisor

Trivia

 * There is a frequent misconception that Takahashi worked on ', ', ', ', and , however, this isn't true. It was a different person with the same name, as they both have different kanji.
 * Monolith Soft's Tetsuya Takahashi's kanji is.
 * The other Tetsuya Takahashi's kanji is.