Jul 27, 2025
How to make Yakuza more interesting? Review of interesting mods for the game.
Everyone who played through the Yakuza series followed the same tactics:
-Completed the game until you were released into the open world.
-We looked for karaoke and sang all the songs that were there.
-We ran about the open world, went through side effects and upgraded the character
-After you have experienced all the content of the game, finish it.
The usual scenario for the average player, well, if you are not a trophy hunter (like me) and did not go to close the game 100%. As a person who completed 4 parts of the game for platinum and saw all the content, I was extremely surprised by the fact that on PC, the game is greatly transformed thanks to mods. Don’t believe me? Well, then welcome to my experimental blog, in which I will talk about interesting mods for the Yakuza series of games.
A short preface
It’s worth noting right away that if you want to download modifications from this blog, I will leave a link to the mod. But for installation you will need Ryu Mod Manager, without it mods won’t work. Here is the link to this program. And here I will attach a video with an example of installing mods.
Also, I will not touch on mods that change the character’s appearance. Believe me, there’s a wagon and a little cart of them, and there’s something for everyone.
Here the imagination of modders https://maximalwins.co.uk/withdrawal/ went to its fullest
Here the imagination of modders went to its fullest
Today I will touch on mods that change the gameplay or its features.
Yakuza 0
Record holder among other parts, has the largest number of mods. These mods are also compatible (but not exactly) with Kiwami.
Probably everyone who beat the game on Legend difficulty thinks that they can do everything. Heh, if you think so, then it is presented to your attention Rebalanced Mod from TOYSIPO2!
What is the essence of fashion?? As you might guess, in the rebalance of the game. Firstly, in street fights you can now extort 5 million from any bandit, and if from a guy in a gold suit, then even more. Thanks to this mod, the hero can be easily upgraded at an early stage of the game.
Secondly, increasing the HP of opponents. You will notice this right away. Now every ordinary enemy has HP at the level of the boss, and the HP of bosses has generally increased exponentially. Just look at the first bossfight with Kuze.
Now mentally imagine how much HP the final bosses and Amon have? Presented? Well done.
Thirdly, reworking the leveling of Dojima Dragon and Mad Dog Majima. Now there are completely new skill trees. Also, Majima’s Breaker has become fast (faster than normal speed) and some styles can have one hit bar or as many as 5 (as you wish).
But of course there are disadvantages in the form of bugs. But I played from downloaded saves, so I didn’t find the bugs that I read on the forums.
If you want to give yourself a challenge, then feel free to download this mod! The link is here.
Also, this mod exists for Kiwami. There are minimal changes there, so I’m doing myself a favor and don’t have to talk about it in the Kiwami section (Heh). The link is also here)
Remember those thugs who roam around the city and try to extort money from you? At first, you will be afraid of them and try to avoid them. But with leveling up, it’s no longer so scary to fight him. If you wanted this Wardrobe to come to you in the nightmares of the night, then the mod from Emergence will make your sweet life less enjoyable.
The mod only does one thing. It changes the Ransomware’s moveset and behavior. Now, instead of the standard set of techniques, the thug fights in the style of Saejima from parts 4 and 5, and in the event of a direct attack, he will kill you with one counterattack. With such changes, the hero will bypass them in a roundabout way. Of course, you can try to fight with them, but so far no one has succeeded 🙂
And here we come to the sweetest part. Reworked combat for the main characters. And there are already several mods that I will put in one paragraph.
–Moviesets by Akiyama and Saejima for Kiryu. Author of the mod – Minksv. He changes the movesets of Rush to Akiyama, and Beat to Saejima. In principle, this is an interesting idea and implemented well, but Beast with the mod has become unnecessary crap, because the hero moves at a snail’s speed, and the techniques are long and clumsy. Plus, you can’t dodge in Beast, which is very sad. But maybe you’ll be lucky and this won’t happen, link here. There is a similar mod for Kiwami, the link is also here.
–Movset from Ishin for Katana. Surely everyone knows that the most desired game among Yakuza fans is Ryu Ga Gotuku Ishin. But SEGA is in no hurry with localization, so we are still waiting for the game in the West. Mod by author ChuckP, adds Ryoma’s moves from Ishin for Kiryu. An important attribute is, of course, the katana. Well, that’s probably it, that’s all you need to know) Link here.
–Actions mod. The best modification for 0. This mod was made MinhGunKiss. Techniques from different parts were added to the game (Kiwami 2, 3,4,5,6, Ishin, Kenzan, Judment), new QTEs for bosses and the like were added. But unfortunately, this modification is only available for WIP users on Nexus. But there is a good alternative
–Y0 new heat actions and movesets and Yet another heat actions mod. These mods are direct successors of the past, but unlike the MinhGunKiss mod, they are free. They were made, as far as I know, by our compatriot ruff.
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