PDP Shard of Dreams Postgame Guide: Shining Needle Castle

Enter the Shining Needle Castle!

This place is incredibly confusing, so bear with me. Basically, some rooms / areas are not accessible from the beginning because the castle is not flipped the correct way. We need to activate switches along the way to flip the castle strategically.

First, enter the room to your right after entering. Medicine Melancholy is waiting in here and will yell at you, before allowing you to continue. The room behind her is currently empty, so exit the room, and go left. Go past the next hallway and inaccessible door. And go up. Go down the stairs when you get to them. Go down until you see Wriggle. She won't fight you, but right above her is a switch. Step on it to flip the castle.

Directly above you now is another switch. Using it will bring you to the spot right above Wriggle with a Yin Yang Orb containing a Floating Stone. Step on the switch again.

Go down and ignore the door for now. Instead, go up the nearby stairs. There's a switch right near you that you should step on. This brings you to a Yin Yang Orb containing a Magic Crystal. Step back on the switch and go back down the stairs. Go through the door just to your left and then through the next one, and step on the switch in the corner.

This brings you to a room with Raiko Horikawa. Fight her and her level 72 YatsuhashiD, level 74 Raiko EX, and a level 72 BenbenP. After defeating her, go through the door below her and then through another one to pick up a Yin Yang Orb containing a Hakurei Shinshu.

Go back to Raiko and use the switch again and then exit the rooms.

Go right past the steps and then up the hallway. A fairy will fight you here with a level 65 OrangeP and a level 65 LyricaP. The fairy also conveniently blocks your way to the switch next to her. Ignore the stairs to the right for now, and instead go just above them and down past Rumia. There's a door down here. Go through it and then through the next one. Use the switch. Go through the next door. Fight the fairy here with a level 65 KagerouS and a level 65 WakasagiP. Go through the door past her.

Go right and up to pick up a Yin Yang Orb containing a Fate Thread. Go back down and then go right. Fight the fairy with a level 65 SeiranS and a level 65 HatateP. Go up past her, right, and then down. Step on the switch. This brings you back to where Rumia was.

Head up, past Rumia again, and go down the steps this time. Go up and to the left. Fight the fairy with a level 65 YuugenP and a level 65 LilyP. Now go back to the right (the only thing to the left is a switch that takes you back to the entrance) and go right past the stairs. Step on the switch here to get a Yin Yang Orb containing a Fluorite.

Go up and past Aya. Step on the nearby switch (left and up past Aya). This brings you back to that last fairy again, so go right and up the steps.

Now, go left and step on the switch next to the fairy that was blocking it earlier. Go down the next set of steps. Continue, and step on the switch. Go up and left past Mystia. Go down and fight a fairy with a level 65 MurasaP and a level 65 YoshikaP. Go through the door and then the next one. Step on the switch.

Exit this room with the door on the right (not the one on the side you just came from). Go through the next door. Fight the fairy with a level 65 LunasaA and a level 65 HinaD. Take the stairs right near her. Then, take the door in the center. You'll be challenged to a fight by Seija Kijin.

Seija uses a level 75 TewiA, level 75 Nue EX, level 78 SeijaD, level 74 WakasagiS, level 75 SekibankiA, and a level 74 KagerouS. After defeating her, she'll run out of the room and you'll talk to Medicine. She'll give you a book for Kosuzu, and then it appears you part with Medicine on good terms.

Now that you're done here, gap out to the Human Village.