Template:Infobox Person Yoshinori Kitase (北瀬 佳範 Kitase Yoshinori, born September 23, 1966) is a Japanese game producer, scenario writer and former game director working for Square Enix (previously Square).
Biography[ | ]
Kitase joined the company in 1991. His most notable roles as game director are Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy VII, and Final Fantasy VIII; he later worked as producer for Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2. Kitase is currently working on The 3rd Birthday as executive producer and Final Fantasy XIII as producer, he is also working as a producer alongside Shinji Hashimoto on Final Fantasy Versus XIII. Kitase is the head of Square Enix's Product Development Division 1.
Personal life[ | ]
He has two children.[1]
Credits[ | ]
- Final Fantasy Adventure (1991): scenario
- Romancing SaGa (1992): field map designer
- Final Fantasy V (1992): field planner
- Final Fantasy VI (1994): co-director
- Chrono Trigger (1995): co-director
- Final Fantasy VII (1997): director
- Ehrgeiz (1998): FF VII staff
- Final Fantasy VIII (1999): director
- Final Fantasy X (2001): producer
- Kingdom Hearts (2002): co-producer
- Final Fantasy X-2 (2003): producer
- Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII (2004): producer
- Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (2004): producer
- Final Fantasy VII Advent Children (2005): producer
- Kingdom Hearts II (2005): co-producer
- Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII (2006): producer
- Final Fantasy V (GameBoy Advance version) (2006): supervisor
- Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (2007): executive producer
- Sigma Harmonics (2008): producer
- Dissidia: Final Fantasy (2008): producer[2]
- Final Fantasy XIII (2009): producer
- Final Fantasy Versus XIII (TBA): producer
- The 3rd Birthday (2010): executive producer
References[ | ]
- ↑ The Producer::Yoshinori Kitase. Square Enix. Retrieved on 2008-11-24
- ↑ Feature: Final Fantasy Dissidia interview translation