Here's what Mr Takeda had to say:

Hi everyone, nice to meet you! …Or perhaps I should be saying thank you for your continued support!

I’m Yuichiro Takeda. I worked as a screenwriter on Xenoblade Chronicles and Xenoblade Chronicles X, and continued in that role for Xenoblade Chronicles 2.

If I were to introduce Xenoblade Chronicles 2 from my perspective as part of the scenario team, I would say that this story has the most director Tetsuya Takahashi flair to date.

For this script, director Takahashi provided us with a rich plot right from the start, and Kazuho Hyodo and I split the writing in half. I worked on the even numbered chapters while Mr Hyodo worked on the odd numbered chapters.

At the same time, Takahashi was writing the whole story himself. Then, the three of us all came together when we had our scripts. We built the script by leveraging our unique personalities and adding in corrections and revisions from Takahashi. This is very similar to the screenplay technique used for movies.

I think that the story of this game will be the ultimate experience for fans of Takahashi. But that’s not to say that I was cutting corners on my end! While writing the screenplay, I was able to dive into the world of Alrest thanks to Masatsugu Saito, who kept designing more and more interesting characters.

My personal favourite is the story about Tora and Poppi in Chapter 4. I love robots and I feel like this story fully reflects my infatuation with the Nopon. I hope that you all like it too.