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Tetsuya Nomura




  Birth Date 1
  Birth Place Kochi, Japan
  Occupation Video Game Director
  Nationality Japanese


(born October 8 , 1970 ) is a Japan ese video game director and character designer working for Square Enix (formerly Square ). He has been rated by the website Next Generation as the 7th most important and anticipated video game developer of 2007.2


BIOGRAPHY


Time Before Square

Nomura was born in Kochi. As a young man, he worked at a vocational school creating art for advertisements.


Time at Square

In the early 1990s, Square hired him to work as monster designer for '' Final Fantasy V '' and then as graphic director and minor character designer for '' Final Fantasy VI ''.

Nomura did not gain recognition until 1995 , when Square asked him to be the character designer for '' Final Fantasy VII '' to replace Yoshitaka Amano , the series' original character designer. It was a huge critical and commercial success and became the definitive role playing game for the PlayStation . In 1998 , he worked on both '' Parasite Eve '' & '' Brave Fencer Musashi ''. In 1997 , Nomura worked on 1999 's '' Final Fantasy VIII ''; a game that achieved commercial success; where he returned as the character designer.

Afterwards, Nomura worked on several other miscellaneous projects such as '''', and the Playstation 2 sequel '' Kingdom Hearts II ''.


Movie

Nomura directed the CGI animated film '''s "Calling". This was also Nomura's film debut.


Current Work at Square Enix

Nomura is currently working on the '''' for the Playstation Portable (PSP).

Tetsuya also confirmed that he will be working on multiple projects related to the '' Kingdom Hearts '' series. According to Nomura, it will be a whole new series and stated, "The next title won't just be ''Kingdom Hearts'' III. If it were III, we wouldn't call it a new series."4 The "new series" is set to be announced at this year's Tokyo Game Show from September 20-23.5

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