Blakeuza 5 Remastered
Now this is one hell of a dream.
The fifth (non-canon) installment to the Blakeuza series. Relive the events of Yakuza 5 in the shoes of... Blake Izayoi (as Kiryu), Taiga Hamjima (as Saejima) and Shun Akiyama and Tatsuo Shinada.
Yeah, Shinada and Akiyama are just there. They're too perfect to replace.
Meanwhile... Back in Sotenbori, a man by the name of Kazuki Murasaki will soon rise the path of legends when the bigger schemes at hand start to unfold.
The link above opens the existing project listing. It does not indicate that the upcoming 2026 remaster is available for download.
View version history ↓Release history
- Original / Version 1
- Original release, later delisted.
- Original delisted; Remastered development began
- Director Murasaki delisted the original and began a rebuild following asset-permission concerns.
- Remastered / Version 2 — development finished
- Major QOL and model-polishing update completed.
- Remastered / Version 2 — scheduled release
- Intentionally held for the anniversary of the original upload.
Version history
Version 1
The original release arrived on , as a small-scale Thanksgiving-era project.
Featured Meiling Hong as Akiyama, and not as many model replacements.
The initial release used suit and ponytail assets from Adidaskote's Yakuza 0 Majima model port with permission granted earlier. Following an asset-permission misunderstanding, Director Murasaki chose to delist the mod, apologize and rebuild the models to remedy the issue.
Remastered/V2:
The original mod was delisted and Remastered development began on . Development finished on ; release is scheduled for , to match the original upload's anniversary.
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Permanently reverted Meiling Hong in Shun Akiyama's roles; removed models. Akiyama is no longer altered.
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The "Optional BGM" add-on is now part of the core mod, with the exception of Meiling Hong's theme for Shun Akiyama's regular encounter theme "Affected Fight" for the Meiling Akiyama add-on.
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Kazuki Murasaki's models were rebuilt using native Yakuza 5 assets, with assets from Yakuza 3 and 4 and compatible backports, to remedy the earlier asset-permission concerns.
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He now uses Y5 Majima's original face and textures instead of the Y0 model.
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His suit is now a heavily edited version of Shun Akiyama's default suit. (Changed from red jacket to blue, black slacks to blue, and black shirt/sleeves to purple.)
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Murasaki's ponytail hair is now a mixture of Ogita's hair and (regrettably) a generic female NPC ponytail...
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Ponytail models in Yakuza are all usually separate models with armatures that support rigged physics... which unfortunately don't work as static model parts and will clip absolutely everywhere...
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Not only that, Yakuza 0 Majima's ponytail also crashed the game when backported and loaded in Y5.
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Recreated the PYIH Medical Eyepatch that Murasaki canonically wears (with a very poorly hackjobbed mesh of Majima's eyepatch to use four straps and use plain textures to not display Majima's snake emblem)
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The actual medical eyepatch unfortunately does not work in Yakuza 5's engine due to weight painting and vertex group issues, despite working fine in 0/Kiwami.
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Blake Izayoi's models (over Kiryu) now receive updated blue irises once again, for consistency with Blakeuza Zero Director's Cut and his original design outside of Blakeuza.
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Taiga Hamjima's models (over Saejima) now use Hamjima's iconic orange and green-brimmed top hat ported from Ringmaster Yasuda (from Yakuza 7) instead of Akiyama's Y5 mafia costume fedora.
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Hamjima's body texture is now the "hiyake" variant by default instead of "asia".
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Mister Expo (over Nishida) now includes his full signature suit model in Nishida's face model (nulled out the other NPC clothing in info.bin)
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New custom opening FMV just like the other Blakeuza mods.
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Character Profiles are no longer modded and remain vanilla, due to the chapter/part sequencing of this game's story, and does not consistently support new custom profiles.
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Instead, there is a batch script in pausepar/pause_en where you can read the official Blakeuza/Murasaki Everywhere character profiles on a dedicated pop-up website! (Blakeuza_Character_Profiles.bat)