Toshiro Tsuchida

(born 1964) is a Japanese game director and game producer. He currently works for Japanese Social Game company GREE. He formerly worked for Square Enix Co., Ltd. (formerly Square Co., Ltd.). He is most notably credited for creating the Front Mission and Arc the Lad media franchises.

Biography

Masaya and G-Craft Tsuchida worked for Japanese development studios Masaya and G-Craft, the latter of which he founded in 1993 after leaving Masaya. During the development of Front Mission 2 and Front Mission Alternative, Square initiated talks with Tsuchida in an attempt to purchase G-Craft in 1997.

Square Enix Tsuchida was also the battle director for both Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy XIII. As battle director of Final Fantasy X, he changed the recurring battle system in the series. Whereas Hiroyuki Ito had created the Active Time Battle system in Final Fantasy IV, Tsuchida would create the Conditional Turn-Based Battle system to make things more strategic. He kept Final Fantasy IV in mind when working on Final Fantasy X. Tsuchida was the head of Product Development Division-6 within Square Enix.

He produced Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King, and stated that Square Enix was excited to be the first ones to bring a new game to Wiiware game platform. The game concept was to take the role of the king, not the hero, and the Crystal Chronicles series has a large amount of character interactions.

He has recently worked on Final Fantasy XIII as the battle planning director in 2010. Tsuchida left Square Enix on February 28, 2011.

GREE He works in a department working with developers to create new video games.

Return to Sony In 2016, he returned to work with Sony's ForwardWorks to develop a mobile Arc The Lad reboot

Games

Masaya

Game Released System(s) Credit(s) Ref. Sol Bianca 1990 TurboGrafx-CD Visual Programmer Ranma ½ 1990 TurboGrafx-CD Producer Head Buster 1991 Game Gear Producer Kaizou Choujin Schbibinman 2: Arata Naru Teki 1991 TurboGrafx-16 Producer Kaizō Chōjin Shubibinman 3: Ikai no Princess 1992 TurboGrafx-CD Producer Ranma ½: Chōnai Gekitō Hen 1992 Super Nintendo Entertainment System Producer Advanced Busterhawk Gleylancer 1992 Sega Genesis Producer Ranma ½: Datō, Ganso Musabetsu Kakutō-Ryū! 1992 TurboGrafx-CD Producer Assault Suits Valken 1992 Super Nintendo Entertainment System Producer Arc the Lad 2 1996 PlayStation Producer Final Fantasy X 2001 PlayStation 2 Battle Director

Square Enix

Game Released System(s) Credit(s) Ref. Front Mission 2003 PlayStation Director, U.S.N. Scenario Writer Front Mission 4 2003 PlayStation 2 Director, Producer Front Mission: Online 2005 PlayStation 2, PC Director, Producer Front Mission 5: Scars of the War 2005 PlayStation 2 Producer Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King 2008 WiiWare Producer Final Fantasy XIII 2010 PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 Battle Planning Director