Last week, we informed you about a restoration patch for Yakuza 3 Remastered. And today, we are happy to report that a similar mod is available for Yakuza 4 Remastered.
This mod restores the original voice and likeness of Masayoshi Tanimura as portrayed by Hiroki Narimiya, brings back to the game its licensed music, adds higher quality videos from the PS3 version, and uncensors the game’s dialogue.
In case you didn’t know, the famous Japanese actor Hiroki Narimiya was originally portraying Masayoshi Tanimura, who is one of the playable characters in the game. The game came out on PS3 in March of 2010 in Japan and March of 2011 in the West. In December of 2016, Hiroki Narimiya was accused of inhaling cocaine. This resulted in what is known as “cancel culture”, where all companies and employers of Narimiya started to cut ties with him. As such, SEGA recast Masayoshi Tanimura with a new actor, Toshiki Masuda.
So, this mod restores Hiroki Narimiya as Masayoshi Tanimura’s actor in the game. The modders have also updated the original PS3 textures for Tanimura, using the upscaling methods so that his textures are as high resolution as those of other characters.
You can download this restoration mod for Yakuza 4 Remastered from here. You can also download an unofficial performance patch for this game from here.
Have fun!
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which one is the one with trans character? When is that gonna uncensored?
Yakuza 3
and when its getting uncensored?
never
I wouldn’t know. When the modders figure it out how to rip from the OG PS3 versions and patch into these new versions, I guess.
Its impossible, because they remove the model file and game script for those side quest…
Someone is really into staring at trans lmao.
Crazy to think taking cocain would ruin someone career in Occident.
It’s Japan we are talking about, hardly occident.
Maybe my english is wrong as a f*king belgian, I try to say that It will not happen in Europe, nobody will have his career ruined by just taking some coco
I wish they had an option of releasing the mod without the high quality videos, this just bloat the mod to 9 gb and more…
Yeah, and it’s capped, you need to pay to get full speed. I wish modders didn’t rely so much on Nexus, even Moddb is better, they could also provide Gdrive links or something.
INHALED COCAINE !?
And Japanese people cancel people for THAT !???! REALLY !!!!?
Are you out of your goddamn mind over there !?
Hey, America, a European here, I just wanted to apologize for making fun of reasons you “cancel” people – this here idiocy takes the cake, easily ! Wow ! A guy took drugs ! Let’s make life a living social nightmare for him ! What a great idea !
Sometimes it really does feel like humanity overall is comprised of utter morons, holy sh*t…!
Yeah they crack down on drugs hard in Japan. I don’t agree with it at all and I honestly feel sorry for the people who got caught doing it as their lives are ruined even if it turns out they didn’t take them in the first place.
Not sure what you have against logging in to download things as it doesn’t seem like a big deal to me. Alternatively though you can just download this mod from Mod DB instead as that doesn’t require you to sign in and the downloads don’t seem to be capped as much on there as well.