Satoru Takizawa

Satoru Takizawa

Games	Ocarina of Time Majora's Mask The Wind Waker Navi Trackers Twilight Princess Link's Crossbow Training Super Smash Bros. Brawl Ocarina of Time 3D Skyward Sword Breath of the Wild
Born	1972 Nagano, Japan
Position	Character Designer Enemy Designer Design Manager Game Designer Design Support Art Director Graphic Supervisor Classic Game Supervisor

Satoru Takizawa is a graphic designer at Nintendo. He started working at the company in the mid 90s where he first worked on Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. His first Zelda project was Ocarina of Time where he served as a Character Designer. Takizawa has since worked in some fashion on every home console Legend of Zelda title since, up through Breath of the Wild. Takizawa has also been on the development team for Navi Trackers, Link's Crossbow Training, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and Ocarina of Time 3D.

Release	Game	Credit(s)
1998	Ocarina of Time	Character Design
2000	Majora's Mask	Enemy Design
2002	The Wind Waker	Design Manager
2004	Navi Trackers	Design Director
2006	Twilight Princess	Art Director
2011	Ocarina of Time 3D	Graphics Supervisor
2011	Skyward Sword	Design Support
2013	The Wind Waker HD	HD Refining Art Director
2016	Twilight Princess HD	Art Director
2015	Majora's Mask 3D	Special Thanks
2015	Tri Force Heroes	Design Adviser
2017	Breath of the Wild	Art Director
2018	Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition	Special Thanks
2019	Link's Awakening (Switch)	Art Director

Gallery

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  Takizawa during a session of Iwata Asks.