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Nuvendil on 05 March 2018
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Jumpin said:

There are 5 people on the Xenoblade team that have been working together since Chrono Trigger - the first game to use New Game+

Although only Tetsuya Takahashi, Makoto Shimamoto, and Yasunori Mitsuda worked on Xenoblade 2 from those 5. Yasuyuki Honne and Tadahiro Usuda on Breath of the Wild.

Makoto Shimamoto also moved onto Breath of the Wild at some point (or the other way around, she moved onto XC2 after Zelda) as she has a credit on Breath of the Wild for game design. For the record, she is credited with a lot as a designer:
Chrono Trigger
Radical Dreamers (Writer)
Xenogears
Xenosaga 1-3
Soma Bringer
Xenoblade Chronicles 1, X, and 2
Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Her job on Chrono Trigger was interesting, the scripted battles where the enemies jump out into position and such, she did a lot of that content.

Yeah, there's a considerable ammount of pedigree behind Monolith Soft.  People just fail to realize it because none of the Dream Team are there (I don't think) and Takahashi's team was largely overshadowed by the Final Fantasy team.