P5R Shido’s Cruiser

Available from 11/25 to 12/18

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12/16Last day to locate Treasure
12/17Last day to send Calling Card
12/17Last day to Steal Treasure

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.


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 can earn more all out attack if you have Psy Magatama or Psy attack accessories. Let the other 2 members use these.

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.

You can refer to the video guide or the map guide below on how to get to the elevator.

In the video, it will also shows you how to get to the First Will Seed room.

Completed map for reference

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 near the door to the fitting room 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

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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.
  • You can earn more all out attack if you have Shock Magatama or Elec attack accessories. Let the other 2 members use these.

Upper Starboard Hallway

Head You can refer to the video guide or the map guide below on how to get to the elevator.

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.
  • You can earn more all out attack if you have Ice Magatama or Ice attack accessories. Let the other 2 members use these.

Lower Port Hallway

There is only one door that is not locked. Head down that path and follow the video or map guide below.

You can also find your second Will Seed room here.

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

This map is pretty much simplified in P5R as compared to P5. If you are not interested to explore, just keep heading north and you can take the elevator. If you want to check how to get every treasure chest in this area, you can watch the video guide below.

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 or go to the nearest Safe Room 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.

There is a treasure chest along the way. Just use your third eye ability to look out for places to jump and climb.

The last Will Seed room is also hidden somewhere along this path. At this spot, instead of going left towards the IT President, climb to the right and there is a one way path that leads you to the Will Seed room.

You can now continue the path towards the IT President’s room.

Shadow IT President

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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

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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. (Prep yourself before you for the battle before you leave)

Goro Akechi

Battle Tactic

  • no weakness. resist curse and bless
  • He will summon 2 minions first. 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.
  • The Guard Dog of Hades is weak to Ice so it might be a good choice to bring Yusuke for the first part fo the battle.
  • 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!


Note: The boss battle is split into a few parts for Shido. When you deal enough damage on each form, the battle will automatically move on to the next.

You can also check out the video guide for the whole boss battle below.

Beast of Human Sacrifice

  • Reflect Physical & Gun attack
  • No weakness
  • Guard when he charge up

Wings of Human Sacrifice

  • Resist Magic attack
  • no weakness
  • Use Gun attack for higher damage

Tomb of Human Sacrifice

  • No weakness
  • Use your best attack
  • Beware of his Unholy Convergence skill. This will charge for 2 turn and deals massive damage to whole party

Masayoshi Samael Shido

  • No Weakness
  • Use your best attack
  • Being Persona with Debilitate and Heat Riser
  • He uses a lot of of Phyical attack, bring members who can reflect or resist Physical attack like Yusuke.

True Masayoshi Samael Shido

  • Same tactic as the previous form.
  • When you have significantly reduced his HP, he will locked up Joker and it will be a one to one battle between Joker and him. He will use Debilitate and Heat Riser throughout the battle. Make sure you have Personas that can cast the same so that it be prolong the battle for you to win.

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