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Takeshi Kawaguchi is an engineer at Team Ninja. Kawaguchi engineered Metroid: Other M, and has programmed several Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden games, as well as Hyrule Warriors and Nioh. These include Dead or Alive: Dimensions, which features the Geothermal Power Plant as a stage, with Ridley as a hazard and Samus as an assist character. He has sometimes been credited as T. Kawaguchi or Gussan.