Tetsuya Takahashi

Tetsuya Takahashi (高橋 哲哉 Takahashi Tetsuya) (born November 18, 1966 in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan) is currently a lead game designer for game software company Monolith Soft, Inc.

In the past, Takahashi has worked at Square (now Square Enix) and on such games as ', ' and, which he worked on as graphic director. His most notable works are those within the ' (Square), ', and  (Monolith Soft) series, all of which he directed.

During a conference in early 2000, the developers of Monolith Soft confirmed that Xenogears was originally planned as a sequel to Chrono Trigger, however, it ultimately ended as its own series of games, bearing the Xeno prefix.