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Monthly Schedules – Persona 5 Royal
English Confidant Arcana Social Link Answer Guides – Persona 5 Royal
Guide to beating The Reaper using a trick, NO FLU REQUIRED
Palace Guides
| Kamoshida’s Palace | Madarame’s Palace | Kaneshiro’s Palace |
| Futaba’s Palace | Okumura’s Palace | Niijima’s Palace |
| Shido’s Palace | Mementos and Qliphoth | Final Palace |
Before starting, what this guide is good for and general gameplay tips!
• Here’s our guide for completing Persona 5 Royal with all maxed social links, maxed character personality stats, all dungeon collectables and new dungeon hidden grapple points, without the need for repetitive reloading.
• You can use it to get the platinum trophy, I will list the trophies as you obtain them!
• This guide is good for those who don’t want to deal with the stress of scheduling everything! If you want to be told what to do on each day, please follow our guide! We provide all correct dialogue options for all confidant social links!
•There is more than enough calendar dates within the game to max out everything, so there really is no need to reload constantly to get the maximum bonus for an activity, there will be weeks’ worth of free days in the endgame where you can do anything you’d like.
•Most of December and January’s days are listed as “free activity time to do whatever you want”. Persona 5 Royal adds an extra month, January, to the game.
•We’ll cover most unique events with characters as well since there’s so much free time, and we obtain every collectible for your room in our guide.
• I’ll give you all the class answers, confidant social link answers, English crossword puzzle answer, etc. within the guide, so you don’t need to stress yourself out flipping back and forth between multiple guides and tabs! Our generous guide is all-in-one for your convenience!
No reloading necessary to get perfect stats!
• An example of “repetitive reloading” is when you craft lockpicks. Sometimes, more “musical notes” appear, which means you will obtain a bonus to the stats awarded (+3 instead of +2), BUT, early on the bonus is difficult to get. So you can keep the bonus if you get it, but it’s not required in our schedule guide.
• If you have a higher crafting level, then you have a higher probability of acquiring the bonus, but in general, in the beginning it’s very difficult to get. It took us over 3 hours on our first Persona 5 playthrough to get the lockpick crafting bonus earlygame, for example.
• Same with “dodging chalk” in classes, early on it’s extremely difficult to get the bonus and it’s not worth to spend hours reloading when there is such a sheer amount of free days in the endgame. On many occassions, you also need to watch lengthy cutscenes the evening beforehand, and even with the skip ability it’s extremely annoying to have to reload and skip lengthy cutscenes to dodge the chalk.
• This guide will assume you don’t get the bonus and you do get hit by the chalk – that way if you do actually get the bonus, you have more wiggle room in case you make a mistake.
Make sure to (generally) have the matching arcana persona
• Remember to (generally) always have matching arcana persona when you do social links! Like if you want to level up the hierophant, you need to have a hierophant persona with you.
• It doesn’t need to be the one persona equipped but it needs to be in your current stock of personas/demons. The exception is the social link ranks from 0 → 1, and from 9 → 10, you don’t need a matching persona for those ranks.
• You also don’t need a matching arcana persona for certain social links as well (some confidants will rank up automatically by 1 each visit), but regardless, we will warn you in advance to get personas ready when there are new confidants and new social links. You DO NOT need matching arcana personas for Sun, Moon, Strength, and automatic links like Magician and Judgement.
• Strength is an example of this, and requires you to complete requests, which are just fusing personas with certain skills, which can be done anytime before endgame. Strength is useful to level up early because you can break the fusion level limit, which means you can fuse a persona that has a level higher than your main character level.
• We will specify a date for you to finish Strength, you need to be about level 52 or so to fuse the last persona, and we have a video guide on how to fuse the required personas on that scheduled day.
• In some cases, it’s okay not to have the matching arcana persona for going from rank 1 to 2, I will list examples, usually this happens when the lowest level for that arcana persona is too high for you at that point in the game.
How to get through the palaces easily!
• We will have general pointers before each month and we will be linking to our other pages for more elaborate dungeon and boss guides. The dungeons in P5 Royal are different (generally easier) and will have new grapple points and hidden collectables to acquire. We have links to our YouTube Channel’s video guides for each palace, so if you can’t find a particular skull seed, no worries!
• It’s best to finish as much of a dungeon as you can each time (usually you can reach a certain point, then you’re forced out). Consider lowering the difficulty setting of the game early on if you’re struggling with enemies and bosses because you don’t want to be wasting extra days completing a dungeon.
• Difficulty level is not tied to trophies, so feel free to set the game to Safety (it locks the game to that difficulty). What this means is that you will have to spend a few hours doing a dungeon all at once, but hey, compare it to SMT games where the whole game is just dungeons.
Careful with SP and money management earlygame!
• SP management is very difficult early on because the first dungeon is long, you don’t have personas, the path is filled with many enemies, you might not be used to the game, etc, so we will recommend in the guide when to buy SP medicines early on.
• You can only buy a certain amount of SP healing medicines at certain vending machines, and they will restock every week or so. But later on you can buy them from the doctor (Death) social link and your money issues won’t be as bad then.
• Also look out for persona lines and persona skills that reduce SP usage. By endgame I fused Lucifer, who had a bloodline ability that reduced SP by 75 %, and I had a passive skill that reduced SP usage by 50 %, and they both stacked, and I had another skill (Invigorate 3) which restored 7 SP each turn. Megidolaon and highest-tier elemental spells normally cost 54 SP per use, but was reduced to 27 SP, then reduced again to 7 SP per usage. See that? Every turn I was gaining that amount of SP, so infinite SP usage basically. Get Almighty Amp and Almighty Boost skills from (should now be free) DLC personas too and you’re unstoppable!
• As soon as you hit about level 51 and you’re able to fuse Seth, complete the Strength link, its rank-up is just missions where you need to fuse personas that have certain skills, and at level 51 or so you can fuse the final required persona. What’s amazing about Strength Rank 10 is that it allows you to fuse any persona level, regardless of your character level, as long as you pay money depending on how much higher the persona’s level is compared to your level. This breaks the game, just make sure to grind money beforehand, and just fuse a level 80-90 persona; the SP usage of skills can be terrible, but do what I said in the paragraph above, by inheriting certain skills you can break the game to be more easy.
• As well, money management is tricky early on, make sure to sell “junk” items to the Airsoft Shop (the military buff man, Munehisa Iwai) each time! You can buy raw silk in another shop that you need as ingredients to do lockpick crafting, but they’re expensive and it’s often better to get silk as enemy drops. Eventually you will get the ability to “hold up” enemies and threaten them for money, which you should do often.
• In Kamoshida’s Palace you can get lockpick crafting materials as drops from Jack-o-Lantern and Mandrake enemies.
• You’ll also need 100 000 yen to do the fortune social link, but I’ll warn you a month in advance.
One tiny mistake can snowball!
• Be careful about making mistakes or changes to my proposed schedule! You might not think something is significant, but it always is!
• I’ve played the PS3 release of Persona 5, played the PS4 release of it too in 2017, I’ve read through the Japanese guidebook for Persona 5 Royal and we’ve written this guide up with our own knowledge from completing the game as well. It’s well-optimized; for example, studying on a rainy day will grant bonus knowledge increases.
• As well, you need to buy the mall special drink each day otherwise the rotation of the drinks will be offset and you can’t use our guide properly afterwards. Same with providing fertilizer to your houseplants and getting books from the school library! I’ll remind you of these rotating tasks though!
• Hopefully you had a backup save from not too long ago if you made a mistake, but if not, you can continue as best you can. Just be careful because I’ve played all the Persona games, and in 3 and 4 I’ve often seen tiny mistakes quickly snowball into huge logistics problems.
• Keep an extra save from the middle of the game or so in case you miss any trophies, but a lot of trophies this time around are just from playing minigames and such.
Crossword localizations are different! Careful!
• Don’t forget the crossword either, I will be sure to remind you each time you can do a new one! Be careful because you cannot use English guides for the crossword if you’re playing a different language (like French or German)! Herein I will provide the English answers for the crossword puzzles, but if you want to see the crossword answers in different languages, please comment and I’ll add them into the guide!
• In this guide I’m using the official English localized translations! Otherwise, generally everything is the same between versions, same gameplay mechanics etc it’s just they have to remake the crosswords because they, of course, can’t translate that perfectly between so many different languages.
What about new confidants and new good/bad endings?
• There are many new social link confidants, but following this guide you will complete them all well before their cut-off dates. I’ll guide you through to get the “best ending” of the game as well, but I’ll tell you where so in case you want to see the bad endings, you can see that too.
• Make sure to rotate your saves in all the slots! It’s very easy to make a mistake! It’s worth it to upgrade your PS4’s harddrive if you feel you run out of disk space easily.
We’re here to help you get the platinum trophy!
• The trophies in Persona 5 Royal are generally much easier to get than Persona 5’s original edition. The trophy list has been changed drastically, but a lot of “tricky” trophies disappear. The original Persona 5 had a trophy for completing all Mementos requests/missions that was easy to miss, but Royal doesn’t have that trophy, it only has one for completing at least one Mementos mission. You’ll get most trophies from following our max links playthrough above.
• If you want to be safe, just leave an extra save in the middle of the game and use that if you forgot to get a trophy. For example, there’s one trophy where you need to order from the maid cafe’s secret menu, but to do so you need to spend at least 20 000 yen, but the highest priced item on the menu is 5 000, meaning you’ll need to make four trips plus another trip to order from the secret menu.
• Of course doing this in our guide is going to waste a lot of days, so if you want just do this yourself at any time you have access to the city, then reload an earlier save. A lot of trophies are “missable”, but you’ll get them easily from our walkthrough schedule. There’s a trophy for maxing all social stats, but you’ll get that easily following our daily schedule.
We won’t change the guide while you’re using it!
• We won’t change the schedule once it’s completed. The schedule we’ve made is reasonably optimized and there are dozens of free days by the endgame, especially since there were extra months added in Royal.
• Our mentality is that changing the schedule once it’s up may cause problems for the people currently in the middle of using our guides!
•In the old days of Persona 3 and 4 on the PS2, we used to love going on GameFAQs and using guides; however, and unfortunately, many guide creators would change the schedule even though we’d be in the middle of using it, causing inconsistencies in our playthroughs and causing us to not be able to max out social links or stats properly as promised.
• This is not to criticize GameFAQs or its amazing guide creators who make guides for free, but we’ve certainly seen this happen first-hand. We won’t change anything in our schedule and we won’t suddenly take down the guide because we know there are thousands of people out there using it. At the time of writing and Persona 5 Royal’s English release, I’m currently getting thousands of hits each day.
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Useful Resources
• Trung Do made an extremely useful Persona 5 Royal fusion calculator, you can get listings of all the personas in the game as well as all of the skills in the game, I’ve used it extensively while playing through the game and I cannot recommend it enough, please check it out: https://chinhodado.github.io/persona5_calculator/index.html#/list