Shigeru Ohmori

Shigeru Ohmori (Japanese: 大森茂 Ōmori Shigeru) is a game designer for several Pokémon games, who is currently working at Game Freak. He is also the Product Development planner who led the team for, and one of the designers of the Pokéwalker system.

He was interviewed for Nintendo Power on May 2007, where he talked about the new cross-generational evolutions and Wi-Fi features available for Diamond and Pearl. Ohmori revealed that he was the one who developed the Underground feature and also participated in the creation of evolutions for Generation IV, stating that he planned to give new evolutions to old Pokémon that players would not expect.

He also appeared in a video message for on August 14, 2014, in which he and Junichi Masuda talked about the upcoming games Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, and announced Mega  for said games.

On November 27, 2014, Ohmori, together with Masuda, was in to celebrate the launch of Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. After the presentation, there was a photo and autograph session with fans.

Shigeru Ohmori was also the director of, being the first director of a new generation of games other than Satoshi Tajiri or Junichi Masuda.

Game credits

 *  (2002) - Game Designer, Map Designer
 * Pokémon Box: Ruby & Sapphire (2003) - Planning
 *  (2004) - Game Designer, Map Designer
 *  (2004) - Game Designer, Map Designer
 *  (2005) - Game Design, Additional Tuning
 * Pokémon Ranger (2006) - Game Design Adviser
 *  (2006) - Game Design Leader, Plot Scenario, Map Designer
 *  (2008) - Game Design, Plot Scenario, Map Design
 *  (2009) - Game Design, Pokéwalker: Game Design
 *  (2010) - Game Design of Special Elements (Lead), Map Design, Survey Radar & Tag Mode Design
 *  (2012) - Pokémon Black Version and White Version Game Design
 *  (2012) - Game Design
 *  (2013) - Planning Director, Pokémon Design Coordination
 *  (2014) - Director, Concept & Plot
 *  (2016) - Director, Planning Director
 *  (2017) - Producer
 * Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee! (2018) - General Producer

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