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Shinya Hiratake is a planner at Nintendo EPD Tokyo. He was originally hired by Square Enix to work on Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles before Nintendo picked him up. He moved to the Tokyo office in 2009.

He came up with the idea for the Captain Toad diorama levels in Super Mario 3D World, which led to his directorial debut in Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker. Afterwards, he was level design lead for Super Mario Odyssey.

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