Masato Kato

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Masato Kato (b. March 28, 1963) is a Japanese game developer and scenario writer, responsible for writing parts of the stories for Chrono Trigger (in which he wrote in-depth material to complement the main story, and also personally scripted all events in the era of 12,000 B.C.), Radical Dreamers, Xenogears and Chrono Cross, all published by Square Co., Ltd.. Kato left Square in 2002 after the initial release of Final Fantasy XI and continued to work in the game industry as a freelance scenario writer. In October 2005, an announcement revealed that he was working with Square Enix on the Children of Mana team [1]. Whether he has fully returned or is just freelancing this project is unknown.

He recent collaborated with Yasunori Mitsuda, longtime friend and music composer, to produce a collection of music accompanied with a story and pictures called Kirite.

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Chrono Trigger (1995): story planner
Radical Dreamers (1996): director, scenario writer (in collaboration with Miwa Shoda)
Final Fantasy VII (1997): event planner
Xenogears (1998): event director
Chrono Cross (1999): director, scenario writer, event planner, CG storyboard
Final Fantasy XI (2002): story writer, event director
Baten Kaitos (2003): scenario writer
Kirite (2005): book writer (book and album composed by Yasunori Mitsuda are packed together)
Deep Labyrinth (2006): scenario writer
Seiken Densetsu DS: Children of Mana (2006): scenario writer
Seiken Densetsu 4 (2006): scenario writer
Seiken Densetsu: Heroes of Mana: scenario writer