Tetsuya Nomura (野村 哲也, Nomura Tetsuya, born October 8, 1970) is a Japanese video game artist, designer, producer, and director working for Square Enix...

series of action role-playing games created by Japanese game designers Tetsuya Nomura and Shinji Hashimoto, being developed and published by Square Enix (originally...

similar to its predecessors, with hack and slash combat, which director Tetsuya Nomura stated would be along the lines of the system seen in Kingdom Hearts...

and the Super Smash Bros. series by Nintendo. Cloud was designed by Tetsuya Nomura, a character artist for the Final Fantasy series, whose role expanded...

the previous game's lead staff return in the same positions, but with Tetsuya Nomura as creative director instead of director, and Naoki Hamaguchi as director...

characters' official voice actors. It was longtime Square character designer Tetsuya Nomura's first time in a directorial position. Kingdom Hearts received critical...

designer Tetsuya Nomura during a discussion between Disney and Square about who the series's protagonist should be. Wanting an original character, Nomura made...

Several key staff members from the original game returned, including Tetsuya Nomura as the director, Yoshinori Kitase as the producer, Kazushige Nojima...

Amano, Tetsuya Nomura, and Akihiko Yoshida. Amano designed characters up to Final Fantasy VI and continues to design each game's logo, Nomura has designed...

of Final Fantasy VII. The game was directed by Hajime Tabata, with Tetsuya Nomura serving as creative producer and character designer. Before development...

hint at Birth by Sleep. The game was directed by Tetsuya Nomura and co-directed by Tai Yasue. Nomura has referred to the game as "Episode 0", as well...

illustrations from Final Fantasy VII onward. Tetsuya Nomura was chosen to replace Amano because Nomura's designs were more adaptable to 3D graphics. He...

Meetup and gave away free bundles of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. Tetsuya Nomura, director of Final Fantasy XV (then known as Versus XIII) and series...

Returning staff for the game include Tatsuya Kando as series director, Tetsuya Nomura as creative producer and character designer, Gen Kobayashi as character...

Most of the first game's development team returned, including director Tetsuya Nomura, with the game being developed concurrently with Chain of Memories....

Advent Children is a 2005 Japanese computer-animated film directed by Tetsuya Nomura, written by Kazushige Nojima, and produced by Yoshinori Kitase and Shinji...

You, another game owned by Square Enix with characters designed by Tetsuya Nomura, marking the first time that characters other than those from Disney...

avoid having too much backstory in Kingdom Hearts III, series director Tetsuya Nomura chose to place this story he long desired to tell in this collection...

protagonists in their quest to stop the game's Gestahlian Empire. Created by Tetsuya Nomura, he was based on a character class he had originally planned for the...

villainy. Xehanort was created by Kingdom Hearts director and designer, Tetsuya Nomura, who decided to revise elements of the character when Square Enix greenlighted...

backgrounds and two dimensional characters. In mid-2007, game director Tetsuya Nomura decided to create a Kingdom Hearts spin-off for mobile phones that would...

animals that strike on her behalf. Lulu was designed by series artist Tetsuya Nomura, who wanted to create a character that differed in appearance from other...

designer Tetsuya Nomura, who had previously worked on monster designs for Final Fantasy VI, to design the main cast. Sakaguchi chose Nomura after being...

early trailer for Versus XIII. Commentators believed series director Tetsuya Nomura, who was also the director of Versus XIII before it was reworked, was...

Yoshinori Kitase, the original game's director, and Tetsuya Nomura, the main character designer. Nomura would become the main designer for each entry in...

Enix) role-playing video game Final Fantasy VII. She was designed by Tetsuya Nomura with influence from Yoshinori Kitase, Hironobu Sakaguchi and Yoshitaka...

Tomohiro Hasegawa (co-director), Takeshi Arakawa (planning director), and Tetsuya Nomura (character design and creative producer) — were able to experience the...

appearances in other Final Fantasy and Square Enix games. Character artist Tetsuya Nomura designed her to be cute, not beautiful, as he wanted to create a character...

2006 as a PlayStation 3 spin-off titled Final Fantasy Versus XIII. Tetsuya Nomura served as the original director and character designer. After a development...

content all contained on one disc." In October 2012, game director Tetsuya Nomura suggested that an HD-version of Kingdom Hearts II was likely to be created...