Tetsuya Takahashi
| Tetsuya Takahashi | |
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| Born | 18 November 1966 (Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan) |
| Japanese name | 高橋 哲哉 |
| Gender | Male |
| Role | Director Scenario writer Story writer Lyricist Artist President (Monolith Soft) |
| Affiliations | Nihon Falcom (1988–1990) Square (1990–1999) Monolith Soft (1999–present) |
| Contributions | Xenogears Xenosaga Episode I Xenosaga Episode II Xenosaga: Pied Piper Xenosaga I & II Xenosaga Episode III Xenoblade Chronicles Xenoblade Chronicles X Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Torna ~ The Golden Country Future Connected Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Future Redeemed |
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[edit]
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.[1] He first worked on Star Trader and then on hirst first RPG - Ys III: Wanderers from Ys.[2] For some games such as Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes, 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 Final Fantasy VI 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 Soma Bringer.
Monolith Soft was acquired by Nintendo in 2007. At this time Takahashi began work on the Xenoblade Chronicles series; he has continued to work on the series until the present day.
Relevance to the Xeno series[edit]
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[edit]
- Director
- Scenario Writer
- Artist (Character Faces Colorization)
- Lyricist (SMALL TWO OF PIECES ~Broken Shards~)
Xenosaga Episode I[edit]
Xenosaga Episode II[edit]
- Original Author
- Supervisor
Xenosaga: Pied Piper[edit]
- Story Writer
Xenosaga I & II[edit]
- Scenario Writer
Xenosaga Episode III[edit]
- Author
- Music Coordinator
- Supervisor of Scenario and Database
Xenoblade Chronicles[edit]
- Concept
- Executive Director
- Scenario Writer
- Lyricist (Ending Theme - Beyond the Sky)
Xenoblade Chronicles X[edit]
- Concept
- Executive Director
Xenoblade Chronicles 2[edit]
- Executive Director
- Scenario Writer
- Lyricist (Drifting Soul, One Last You)
Torna ~ The Golden Country[edit]
- Executive Director
- Scenario Writer
- Lyricist (A Moment of Eternity)
Xenoblade Chronicles 3[edit]
- Concept
- Executive Director
- Scenario Writer
- Lyricist (A Step Away, Where We Belong)
Future Redeemed[edit]
- Concept
- Executive Director
- Scenario Writer
- Lyricist (Future Awaits)
Other media[edit]
Video games[edit]
Star Trader[edit]
- Artwork
Ys III: Wanderers from Ys[edit]
- Monster graphics designer
Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes[edit]
- Artist
Dinosaur[edit]
- Graphic design
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Final Fantasy III[edit]
- Debugger (not credited)
Final Fantasy IV[edit]
- Battle graphics designer
Romancing SaGa[edit]
- Field map designer
Final Fantasy V[edit]
- Field graphics designer
Final Fantasy VI[edit]
- Graphics director
Front Mission[edit]
- Graphics designer
Chrono Trigger[edit]
- Graphics director
Soma Bringer[edit]
- Producer
- Lead game designer
Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Endless Frontier[edit]
- Staff
Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS[edit]
- Senior supervisor
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U[edit]
- Senior supervisor
Project X Zone 2[edit]
- Supervisor
- Cooperation
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate[edit]
- Original game supervisor
Trivia[edit]
- There is a frequent misconception that Takahashi worked on Secret of Mana, Trials of Mana, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII, and Final Fantasy X, 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 高橋 哲哉.
- The other Tetsuya Takahashi's kanji is 高橋徹也.
Gallery[edit]
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References[edit]
- ↑ 「ゼノブレイド」高橋哲哉 ×「ペルソナ」橋野桂：対談──作家性とは何か？ 世界で評価されるJRPGの旗手が掲げる美学をめぐって - denfaminicogamer.jp
- ↑ Iwata Asks: Xenoblade Chronicles 3D - nintendo.co.uk