Kazushige Nojima

Kazushige Nojima (野島一成, Nojima Kazushige^?, born January 20, 1964 in Sapporo) is a Japanese game scenario writer and is the founder of Stellavista Ltd.. He is best known for writing parts of Square Enix's Final Fantasy video game series, namely Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy X-2 and also the entire Kingdom Hearts series. Nojima also wrote the original lyrics of Liberi Fatali for Final Fantasy VIII and both Suteki da Ne and the Hymn of the Fayth for Final Fantasy X. He is currently working on Final Fantasy XIII as scenario writer. He is also the scenario writer for the adventure mode of the Wii game Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

Nojima worked for Square Enix until October 2003 and was credited on the following video games during his time as a Square-Enix employee:

Final Fantasy X-2 (2003; as Scenario Writer) (w/ Daisuke Watanabe)
Kingdom Hearts (2002; as Scenario Writer) (w/ Daisuke Watanabe and Jun Akiyama)
Final Fantasy X (2001; as Scenario Writer)
Final Fantasy VIII (1999; as Scenario Writer)
Final Fantasy VII (1997; as Scenario Writer) (w/ Yoshinori Kitase)
Bahamut Lagoon (1996; as Director)

Since working as a freelancer, he has been credited on the following projects:

Glory of Heracles: Proof of Spirit (2008; as Scenario Writer)
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008; as Scenario Writer for Adventure Mode: The Subspace Emissary) (w/ Masahiro Sakurai)
Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII- (as Scenario Writer)
Kingdom Hearts II (2005; as Scenario Writer)
Final Fantasy VII Advent Children (2005; as Scenario Writer)
Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (2004; as Scenario Supervisor)
Before Crisis -Final Fantasy VII- (2004; as Scenario Supervisor)
Final Fantasy XIII (release year unknown; as Scenario Writer)
Glory of Heracles IV (1994; as Scenario Writer)
Glory of Heracles III (1992; as Scenario Writer)
Tantei Jingūji Saburō: Toki no Sugiyuku mamani... (1991; as Scenario Writer)
Glory of Heracles II (1989; as Scenario Writer)
Tantei Jingūji Saburō: Kiken na Futari (1988-1989; as Scenario Writer)

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