Persona 5 royal casino walkthrough

You’ve spent the entirety of Persona 5 Royaltalking with Sae Niijima, one of the detectives in the case against the Phantom Thieves, but, surprise, she has one palace as well. The elder sister of Makoto and your last chance at explaining yourselves to the police, Sae’s palace takes on the form of a casino – the one from the intro of the game.

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You’ve already got the younger Niijima sibling in your team, so your new addition for this palace is Goro Akechi, the detective prince who’s been a real frenemy pain in your ass so far. If you’re looking for some help with Sae’s Casino, we’ve got you covered.

Preliminary Info

Sae’s palace takes the form of a casino inside the courthouse in Tokyo to depict how she views her job as win or lose, and the theme carries throughout the dungeon. You ought to be between Levels for the smoothest sailing through this location, and it’s always important to be leveling up your teammate’s Confidant rankings to give them bonus skills, too.

As always with dungeon-crawling in this game, take some time to check in on your teammates and Joker’s Personas.The Velvet Room should be rife by this point with fusions you can make to maximize the damage output from Joker, so be sure to stay abreast of that.

With so many varying affinities and weaknesses in the shadows for this palace, it’s tough to recommend one Phantom Thief over the others, as they’ll all have abilities that can hurt. Because of this, your party is largely up to you. Worth noting is that Akechi is your first easy access to bless and curse attacks, and those are the two elements with the most weak points for the shadows. Akechi is a good choice to deal with those, but watch out for the number of shadows that nullify those attacks, too, and use someone else to deal with them.

Shadows

Mini-Bosses

Staff-Only Area

When you infiltrate Sae’s palace, you’ll do so the same way you got in before. Not far from the elevator is a safe room for the main floor, so activate it and then go up the stairs into the room there. This brings you to the Staff-Only Area, where you’ll be doing the first part of your dungeon crawling to find a customer data terminal here.

Go straight until the hall forks, going right to grab a treasure chest then doubling back to go left to carry onward. This will lead you to a stairwell and a safe room, so activate this safe room. Unlock the shortcut using Third Eye to get back, then climb the stairs here to confront a shadow mini-boss, Queen Mab.

Defeat her using the affinities chart above to receive the Security Keycard.Open the door nearby into a hallway you’ve not been to yet, which has a locked door ahead that you can access using your Security Keycard.

Ahead, you’ll see a door blocked by guards, who you can try to sneak past or fight for XP. The fight will be against Valkyrie and Unicorn.After defeating them, you open the door to find another locked door, accessible with your Keycard.

Go through the vent in this newly unlocked room to get to the Ganesha mini-boss fight. It drops Member Cards upon defeat, and the team takes one (with Akechi also taking one of his own). You also receive the dungeon map here, so grab it, unlock the door behind you, then head back through the vent once again.

With this new Member Card, you can get higher up in the casino, so head back to the Main Floor elevator and use this new card to access the Members’ Floor.

Members’ Floor

When you regain control of the group, go to the Cashiers counter to learn that you’ll need to gamble to win access to the next area of the dungeon. The casino gives you 1, coins as seed money, and you need to find a way to turn that into 50,. It gives the illusion of choice for what you can play, but the dice game is the way forward.

Dice

Play a few rounds of the dice game until Akechi points out that the game is rigged. If you leave the table, go left, and use Third Eye, you’ll find a vent in the room to crawl through.

Conveniently, this leads to where you can “cheat” the games yourselves.To get to the area you need, follow these quick steps.

• Go until you hit a fork in the path, then keep going straight until you hit a climbable block.
• Climb over it, continue straight, go through the door, and up the stairs here.
• Upstairs, go straight until you hit another staircase, and use it to get back down.
• Follow the path (hitting the safe room if you need to prepare for the fight you’re heading to), until you hit a room at the end of the path that leads back to the dice game.

If you see an enemy here, you’re in the right spot. You’re up against Nebiros, so use our table above to win the fight quickly. Doing so rigs the dice games in the Thieves’ favor, so go back to the dice game and head to the one marked with a ! over it.

You won’t make enough to hit the goal, but continue to choose “Between 11 and 18” until the game is over.

Slots

The other gambling option you’ve got is slot machines, so head to that section of the map after you’re done with the dice game. A major difference here is that the slot room has shadows lurking about, meaning you’ll need to either be more careful navigating or prepare to earn some good XP through fights.

You’ll see colored terminals around the room. Keep them in mind as you ultimately head to the door in the west that brings you to a giant slot machine. It’s tempting to play, but you know the last game was rigged, so don’t do it yet. Instead, inspect the back of the machine.Climb up it and listen to Futaba tell you which terminals you’ll need.

Thankfully, the ones you need never change; they’ll always be thered and green terminals.Red can be found by the entrance to the slot room, while green is in the staff passageway. While searching for the green one, you’ll likely come across the second Will Seed, so use our guide if you’d like to get it.

After all is said and done with the terminals, go back to the big machine and activate it to get the last of the coins you need. Take them and head back to the Cashier in the lobby. Though, Sae knows you’re making progress and doesn’t want you to, so you’re in for another fight before you can continue. It’s against Norn from our tables above.

Defeating it feels good, but you learn afterwards that you can’t progress until you get Sae to recognize you in court in the real world.She’s in the middle of a case, so it’s as easy as showing up, but doing so requires an entire day outside the palace. Take care of it sooner than later, and you’ll be sent back into the palace again to progress to the next area.

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