Tetsuya Takahashi

Tetsuya Takahashi (高橋 哲哉 Takahashi Tetsuya) (born November 18, 1966 in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan) is currently the head of game software company Monolith Soft, Inc. In the past, Takahashi has worked at Square (now Square Enix) and on such games as Final Fantasy V, Final Fantasy VI and Chrono Trigger. His most notable works are those within the Xenogears (Square), Xenosaga (Monolith Soft) and Xenoblade (Monolith Soft) series, all of which he directed.

He is married to Soraya Saga, who also worked with him at Square Enix, as well as on Xenogears, Xenosaga, and Soma Bringer. He is the co-founder and president of Monolith Soft.

Biography

Born on November 18th, 1966 in Shizuoka Prefecture in Japan. He began his career in video games in the 1980s working with Nihon Falcom, before moving on to Squaresoft. In 1995 he married his Squaresoft coworker Kaori Tanaka, better known by her pen name Soraya Saga. In October 1999 he left Squaresoft to start a new company, Monolith Soft, together with Hirohide Sugiura.

Game credits

• Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes (1989): Art
• Final Fantasy IV (1991): Battle Graphics
• Romancing SaGa (1992): Field Graphics
• Final Fantasy V (1992): Field Graphics
• Secret of Mana (1993): Map Graphic Design
• Final Fantasy VI ( 1994): Graphic Director
• Front Mission (1995): Graphic Design
• Chrono Trigger (1995): Graphic Director
• Seiken Densetsu 3 (1995): BG
• Final Fantasy VII (1997): Concept Art
• Xenogears (1998): Director, Scenario Writer
• Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht (2002): Director, Scenario Writer
• Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse (2004): Original Author
• Xenosaga: Pied Piper (2004): Story Writer
• Xenosaga I & II (2006): Scenario Writer
• Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra (2006): Author, Music Coordinator,Supervisor of Scenario and Database
• Soma Bringer (2008): Producer
• Xenoblade Chronicles (2010): Concept, Executive Director, Scenario Writer

External links

• Tetsuya Takahashi profile at MobyGames
• "Tetsuya Takahashi bio & interviews" at "Study Guide to Tetsuya Takahashi's Xenoverse"