Akitoshi Kawazu

Akitoshi Kawazu (河津 秋敏, Kawazu Akitoshi^?, born 1962) is a Japanese game producer and game designer who was born in Kumamoto Prefecture. He studied ceramics at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Kawazu joined Square (later Square Enix) in 1985.^[1] He is the creator of the SaGa and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles series of role-playing video games and is now an executive producer at Square Enix and the head of the company's Production Team 2.

Works

• Final Fantasy – Game design
• Final Fantasy II – Game design
• The Final Fantasy Legend – Director and scenario
• Final Fantasy Legend II – Director and scenario
• Romancing SaGa – Director, scenario, system design, and battle design
• Romancing SaGa 2 – Director, scenario, and game design
• Romancing SaGa 3 – Director
• Rudra no Hihō – Director
• SaGa Frontier – Producer and director
• SaGa Frontier 2 – Producer
• Racing Lagoon – Producer
• Legend of Mana – Producer
• Hataraku Chocobo – Producer
• Wild Card – Game design
• Unlimited Saga – Producer and director
• Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles – Producer
• Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Song – Producer and director
• Code Age Commanders: Tsugu Mono Tsuga Reru Mono – Executive producer
• Final Fantasy XII – Executive producer
• Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates – Executive producer
• Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King – Executive producer
• Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers – Producer, scenario writer
• The Last Remnant – Executive producer^[2]
• It's New Frontier – Design^[3]

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