Shido’s Cruiser

Available from 11/25 to 12/18

12/16	Last day to locate Treasure Room
12/17	Last day to send Calling Card
12/17	Last day to steal Treasure/Heart

Similar to Futaba’s Pyramid, you will be stealing the Treasure on the same day as when you send the Calling Card.

This guide will only contains strategy to puzzles and Bosses in the Palace.

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Central Passage

Go to the Safe Room in the Central Passage. Head to the other stairs and go up to Central Hall.

Central Hall

Go down the stairs and you will see a door with the word Restaurant above it. Enter the door and speak to the waiter. You will be told that you need a membership card to proceed.

Go back to the Central Hall and speak to the guest with the speech bubble above their head and you will learn that someone dropped their membership card and one of the bartender has it. Use your third eye ability and you will see a set of footprints on the floor. Follow it and you will be able to find the bartender who has the membership card.

Now you can enter the restaurant.

Restaurant

No matter what you choose here, Ryuji will end up going with Makoto. And you will enter the battle immediately.

Politician Ooe

Battle Tactic

• Weak to Psio
• Bring Haru for this fight so that you can get 2 all out attack in one turn (Joker & Haru)

You get your first letter of recommendation after the battle! Now, take the elevator in the Restaurant up.

Mid Starboard Hallway

This is where the maze begins again. You will realized that you turned into mice in certain room. To get past this area, you need to know which way to go and which door you can open.

Go into the room again and this time, use your third eye ability to find the vent near the locked door in the room. Crawl through it.

Once you emerge, unlock the door to your right first. So that you will be able to come in this way later. Head up north and enter the big room where you will turned into mice again. Avoid the shadows and find the vent that you can crawl through.

Head to the right first to unlock the door and then go back to the left. You will find a control button. Press it.

Head back down to the bottom right of the map to take the elevator.

Here’s a glimpse of how the map looks like if you have explore 100% of it.

Pool Deck

Find Former Noble but he won’t speak to you at all. Speak to the girl in a hat to learn about the rental of fashionable swimwear near the bar.

Talk to the bartender but he won’t lend you unless you have the boarding pass (which you don’t). You need to find another way to sneak into the room. Head around the stairs and you will find a duct. Break it open and climb through it into the fitting room.

Once the girls exit in their swimsuit, Former Noble will know speak to your party and the battle will begin.

Former Noble

Battle Tactic

• Weak to Elec
• Bring Ryuji for this fight so that you can get 2 all out attack in one turn (Joker & Ryuji)
• Becareful that he will brainwash your party. Bring Haru to cure the ailments.

Upper Starboard Hallway

Head to the north and you will turn into mice again. Find the vent for you to crawl through.

You need to repeat this along this path twice. Don’t forget to unlock the doors so that you can pass through easily next time.

Head south and you will find the first control button. Push it and go into the next room and you can see a small room on your map. Open the treasure and then head back to press the control button again.

In the room, you can now crawl through the small duct to the next area.

Remember to unlock the door and then go back to the the room with the control button and press it again.

Keep moving and you will realized that your path is blocked again. You need to go back and turn on the button again.

Go to the room at the bottom and you will find another duct that you can crawl through as a mice.

In the next area, crawl through the duct near the bottom of the room to get access to a treasure chest. After you get the treasure, once again go back and press the button so that you won’t turn into mice again. Head north towards the exit and you will be able to reach the next area.

Here’s a glimpse of how the map looks like if you have explore 100% of it.

Back Deck

Head down to the entertainment hall. If you are in need of Liquid Mercury, you can keep going back and forth between the hallway and the deck to hunt them.

You will be stopped before you enter the entertainment hall and someone will summon two Heretic Goat to attack you. Use bless attack on them.

Entertainment Hall

Keep going down and the party will soon find the TV Station President.

Shadow TV President

Battle Tactic

• Weak to Ice
• Bring Yusuke for this fight so that you can get 2 all out attack in one turn (Joker & Yusuke)
• Use gun attack on the minions behind him.

Lower Port Hallway

There is only one door that is not locked. Head down that path. All the doors are locked so you need to find the button and press it so that you can turn into mice and crawl through the duct.

Unlock the door from the room and switch the button off so that you can now walk through the door normally. Don’t forget to unlock the other door near the button once you passed through the first area.

After this, if you want to collect a treasure chest, go back and turn on the button and move into the small alley. Otherwise you can just keep moving on and there are not much puzzle along the paths.

In the next area at the top of the map, you will find another button. Press it to turn it on.

You will find a duct just near the room with the button to crawl through.

Head north to unlock the door and switch the button off before you proceed on. Head to the room with a connecting locked door. Unlock the door so that you can pass through it later. Go back to the room with the button and switch it on again before coming back to the current room with a duct for you to crawl through.

Move down to the next room where you turn into mice again and you can find a duct for you to crawl through to the next unexplored area.

Now you can find your way through the last locked door. Beware of the shadows as you are in your mice form and can easily KO-ed. Crawl through the vent to get to the other side.

Here’s a glimpse of how the map looks like if you have explore 100% of it.

Side Deck

Head to the left side of the deck but you will be stopped again but that scary guy and he summoned 3 Heretic Goat this time round. Just use Bless attack to knock them down for an all out attack.

Mid Port Hallway

Head all the way straight up to find the button and turn it off.

Clear all the shadows until your paths are all blocked. Head back to the room and switch the button on. Now you can access the locked room once again by crawling through the ducts.

This is quite a straightforward area so you can just refer to the below map for the duct paths.

Central Hall

You ended up back in the Central Hall once again and the IT President is nowhere to be found. Head over to the restaurant and speak to the waiters. The party will discuss how to find the room and decided to head back to the side deck. To get there quickly, you can use a Goho-M to return to the entrance and use quick access to the Safe Room on the Side Deck.

Side Deck

Head to the right of the deck this time and you can find the spot to climb with your third eye ability.

Shadow IT President

Battle Tactic

• Weak to Frei
• He summon Scandalous Queens who are weak to Psio
  
• He will use skill Hamaon. Equip Joker with a Persona that Null or Reflect bless.
• Keep attacking the Scandalous Queen so that he will use summon on his turn instead of Hamaon
• Use All Out Attack to deal damage on him
• Haru & Makoto are good partners to bring along for this battle

Head back to the Side Deck after the battle and examine the smelly duct that you passed by.

Engine Room

Once you exit the duct, you will enter into a battle. Prepare your party first.

The Shadow Cleaner will escape so go after him. However you can’t enter the door as it’s locked. Head to the room at the back and climb up to find a vent that you can crawl through to get into the room.

Shadow Cleaner

Battle Tactic

• no weakness
• Use Down Shot attack for Joker, Miracle Punch for Mona and One-Shot Kill for Haru to get a chance to knock him down for an all out attack.
• He will keep using curse skill. Equip Joker with a Persona that Null or Reflect curse.
• Bring along a healer. If you have any Persona with Tetraja skill, bring him along too so that you can protect your party from Mudoon attack.

As you try to exit from the Engine Room, Akechi appears! You will now have to battle him.

Goro Akechi

Battle Tactic

• no weakness. resist curse and bless
• He will summon 2 minions. Increase defense for the party as the damage dealt by them is huge. I use Makoto to increase defense for the party and Ann to reduce attack of the shadows.
• Equip Joker with Persona that Null or Reflect bless & curse as Akechi will keep targeting him and the reflected attack deal huge damage on Akechi.
• Just keep attacking him with your highest attack.
• Guard when Akechi Charge Up
• After you defeated him for the first time, he will evolved into his next form.
  
• He can attack twice each turn now. First attack is usually a support skill (psy & magic wall) and second turn is an attack.
• The battle will be easy if you increase defense of your party and lower attack of Akechi.
• When Akechi glares at Joker, make him guard as Akechi will deal a huge almighty attack on Joker on his next turn

Once you leave the engine room, you will automatically be brought back to the Central Passage. Examine the Main Assembly Hall Door to enter the next area.

Assembly Hall

Head into the room and you will spot the treasure.

Route to Treasure is now secured!

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Note: The boss battle is split into a few parts for Shido.

Beast of Human Sacrifice

Battle Tactic

• Reflects Physical and Gun attack
• No weakness
• Guard when he charge up
• Deal enough damage and he will change into the next form

Wings of Human Sacrifice

Battle Tactic

• Resist magical attack
• Use Gun attack for higher damage
• Deal enough damage and he will change into the next form

Tomb of Human Sacrifice

Battle Tactic

• Just use your best attack and it will be down easily.
• Beware when he use Unholy Convergence as he will charge for 2 turn and deal massive damage to your party
• Deal enough damage and he will change into the next form

Masayoshi Samael Shido

Battle Tactic

• no weakness
• Just use your best attack
• It will be useful to bring a Person that reflects Physical attack and also Yusuke with High Counter
• Once his HP is down to 1, he will transform into his final form

True Masayoshi Samael Shido

Battle Tactic

• no weakness
• Just use your best attack