Yakuza 4 Remastered

SEGA of America, Inc.

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PS4 Version
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Blood, Sexual Themes, Strong Language, Use of Alcohol, Violence

1 player
PS4 Version
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Boogieman117

Rated 10/9/2025

4 Characters Walk Into Kamurocho...

When I look back on my time with Yakuza 4 Remastered, I’m consistently reminded of a few constant things that make a “Yakuza game a Yakuza game” - the mini-games that could be games themselves, the intensity of the games’ story emotionally, the utter hilarity that are the games’ sub stories, and the ever-so-familiar world of the city of Kamurocho. The beauty of “4” is simple: all of the familiar things are there while the story grows by a factor of 4. Visually speaking, Y4R is just a resolution glow-up of the original Yakuza 4 released on the PS3 in 2010. To my knowledge, there are no texture enhancements of any sort, just a generalized scale-up for modern screens. Since I never played the original Y4, I didn’t have any preconceived notions of what I was missing. This applied to Yakuza 3 and Y3R, respectively; playing the remaster still ‘looked’ like a PS3 game, just with modern visual scaling. Y4R’s music borrows from the soundtracks of older entries in the series; conversation music between characters has familiar music to the ears of players of Yakuza 1-3. Dialogue sounds very crisp and clear, and intonation for the voiceover work seems to be par for the course for a Yakuza game. So far, there really isn’t much to separate Y4R from other previous Yakuza games; this isn’t intended to be a dismissive shot across the review, but after playing Yakuza 0, 1, 2, 3 in that order, you have a very strong sense of how Yakuza 4 plays out. Until the realization that you don’t start as Kiryu - that is when I realized that this was very different from previous entries. The story takes most of the shine here, as the game follows 4 different protagonists that orbit the overarching world that the Yakuza games make up. Kiryu is the obvious throughline for the game, with Majima being the secondary ‘sidecar’ character, while the three new characters nicely split off to cover what feels like a much larger ‘lore’ for the Yakuza series. Akiyama, the empathetic loan shark, gives a nice story echo to the events of Yakuza 1. Tanimura, an ethical, stubborn young street cop, provides a great side story into how the Kamurocho police force can be infiltrated by evil people. Saejima, Majima’s one-time partner-in-crime, shows what happens to yakuza that are caught and the hellish world they endure inside prison. The beautiful thing about Yakuza 4 to me is the ‘constant’ of Kiryu’s story (constant struggles with the Tojo Clan and other entities) and the ‘variables’ of Akiyama, Saejima, and Tanimura’s stories. The single thread of Kiryu’s tale seems to be a ‘center strand’ that the other 3 wrap around, culminating in one hell of an end-game segment with a satisfying ending that is worthy of the time spent. In short, Yakuza 4 doesn’t really break the mold overall when compared to previous Yakuza games before it; however, it’s inimitable in its story delivery, exactly because of what it does using the Yakuza world as a blank slate.

Yakuza 4 Remastered

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A murder in Tojo Clan territory soon sets off an investigation by a small Tojo branch consisting of Kazuma Kiryu, Masayoshi Tanimura, Shun Akiyama, and Taiga Saejima. Follow the four playable protagonists as they unravel a hidden battle over money, power, status, and honor and a mysterious woman at the center of it all. With underground forces readily willing to kill to protect their secrets, the search seems to lead to more questions than answers.

Complete The Dragon of Dojima’s journey.

Platform:: PS4
Release:: 10/29/2019
Publisher:: SEGA of America, Inc.
Genres:: Action, Adventure

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