Hiroyuki Sawano
Beginning development after work finished on "Xenoblade Chronicles", "Xenoblade Chronicles X" features multiple returning staff from earlier "Xeno" titles, including series creator Tetsuya Takahashi as executive director and scenario co-writer. The staff also included "Xenoblade Chronicles" director Koh Kojima and producer Shingo Kawabata, "Xenoblade Chronicles" scenario co-writer Yuichiro Takeda, and "Xenosaga" artists Kunihiko Tanaka and Kouichi Mugitani. The team set themselves the challenge of creating an expansive world for players to explore within a tight development budget. The implementation of online multiplayer both proved challenging due to the team's inexperience, and the game required a comprehensive story rewrite to recast the protagonist as a player-created avatar. The music was created by anime composer Hiroyuki Sawano.