The Kaito Files: all four chapters, investigation solutions and bosses
Full story spoilers below. This follows all four chapters, with the investigation answers, stealth routes and boss fights. Check the rooms along the way for extra supplies and SP. The separate collectible guides cover the full location lists.
Use the on-screen controls for your platform. Light, Heavy, Grab, Guard and Evade below mean the actions, not a particular controller layout.
Chapter 1: What Goes Around
Complete the opening chase and fight Senda's investigators. Bruiser is your starting style. Follow Kaito's on-screen chase prompts.
At the office, try the available calls. When you leave, follow the Primal Focus tutorial: Nose on the rubbish for a Matsugane Family Crest; Ear on the vending-machine cat for the Bloody Crest. Keep these two accessories distinct.
Go to Bar Tender. The following client meeting introduces Kyoya Sadamoto's request concerning Mikiko. Exhaust his questions. When the objective points you back toward Tender, Higashi's call redirects the trip to Charles.
The fight outside Charles introduces Tank. Use Light attacks beside loose objects to pick them up and swing them automatically. The chapter ends after the meeting with Jun.
Before moving on, you can start your cat and scent checklist and collect the early memories at the old Matsugane office, Pink Alley and inside Bar Tender.
Chapter 2: Like Father, Like Son
Flashback and the first leads
Inspect Mikiko, Hotta, Maho and the paper beside Maho, including its reverse. Use Nose on the box underneath a desk. For the evidence prompts, present Box of Sweets, then Maho's Buttons. The sweets explain the attempted approach; the buttons establish what happened to Maho.
After the flashback fight, exhaust Jun's questions and visit Café Alps. Speak to the counter employee, then go to the manager in the back. Use Ear on him to identify the headphones. Examine the megaphone and push the stick upward when prompted to increase Kaito's shout.
Optional café reward: inspect the cash behind the potted plant and return it to the customer who mentions losing money for a Fierce Mouth Guard.
Follow the Champion District lead, fight the intervening enemies and speak to Momoko near Earth Angel. At Kamuro Theater, ask the M Side Café employee, take the lift to the roof and speak to the child. Find the cleaning lady in Millennium Tower. Open Drone Settings and fly the drone toward the stranded cat.
Find the new Bato office
After Jun is taken, search the old Bato Detective Agency. The useful phone number is on the reverse of the flattened cardboard behind the main desk. Inspect and rotate it, then use the desk phone to call the movers.
Before leaving, use Ear on the noisy cabinet. Open it, switch back to Primal Eye and inspect the gift boxes inside for A Swordsman's Teachings: Part One. Nose also reveals the Power Ab Belt in a box at the rear.
Rescue Jun
At the new Senryo Avenue location, use cover, coins and takedowns. On each searched floor, inspect the apparently unoccupied doors as well as using the correct sense on the occupied room.
- Second floor: Ear identifies the occupied room. Knock when normal control returns.
- Third floor: Nose identifies the cigarette smoke behind a door.
- Fourth floor: Ear picks up snoring and a phone conversation. The phone room contains the key used on the exterior route upward. Walk around the cans in the sleeping man's room.
- Fifth floor: distract the last guard and reach Jun.
Fudo the Killer: keep away from his grabs. Tank with room furniture is a practical approach. Use the weapon before it breaks, then spend an available EX Action while it still has durability. Stop attacking when the Mortal Attack warning begins and react to the reversal opportunity.
Afterward, select a disguise to lose the tail, collect Jun at the batting center and return to the agency. Check the office door area and smell the smoke, then use the drone at the western window to identify the intruders.
Chapter 3: Out for Blood
At Shirakaba's house, present the Cleaning Lady's Testimony. During the search, inspect the bag and photograph, and smell the clothing and bag. Within the photo, inspect Mikiko, the bag, the theater sign and especially the partly concealed date at the lower right. A picture can have several separate investigation targets.
Defeat Crimson Lotus's group before concentrating on Nishio. Then fight Kenmochi.
Kenmochi, first fight: his large weapon and rolling attack punish standing directly in front of him. Let a swing finish, take a short opening, then leave. Do not treat his slower movement as permission to keep attacking through the next swing. Complete the closing button sequence.
Back in Kamurocho, use the alley behind the Tenkaichi Street building, climb through the building and cross the roof. Deal with the gunman promptly. The sword opponent, Kubo, is followed by additional enemies, so leave yourself room to move when the extra enemies arrive.
On the return visit, avoid the police. Follow their patrol openings and use coin distractions. This section is about getting past them, not knocking them all out.
Burnt-room solution
1. Use Ear on the computer to recover the Burnt Hard Drive.
2. Inspect the business card and the misaligned desk drawer.
3. Find the crowbar near the entrance and use it on that drawer.
4. The tablet code is 413625.
5. Compare the resulting photograph with the List of Victims.
The scent search can reveal the code in the room. If the investigation will not close, inspect the evidence objects as well as the burnt scent spots.
Follow the real-estate-office lead in Pink Alley and tail Kenmochi. After the interruptions and fights, resume the tail promptly. At the hotel, clear the entry group, speak to Senda and continue upstairs.
Kenmochi, second fight: watch his punches and grapples, then punish the moments when he stops or becomes unsteady. Furniture and poolside objects give Tank useful options. Stay ready for the finishing QTE after his health runs out.
Chapter 4: Cat & Mouse
Speak with Mikiko, then fight Igarashi and Senda. Break through the partitions to reach a larger fighting space and more furniture. Removing one opponent first makes the remaining attack timings easier to read.
Return to the office for Jun. You can visit allies before the trip. Stock up before leaving with the Bato group: the hotel sequence is lengthy, even though this is not the final free-roam cutoff.
During the case discussion, answer To destroy evidence, present the Burnt Hard Drive, and identify Kyoya Sadamoto.
Hotel infiltration
The worker disguise does not get Kaito into the gathering. Investigate the waiters and their conversation about the smoking area. In the toilet corridor, inspect the floor beside the cleaning sign for the key. Return to the doors marked Evacuation Route, enter the smoking area and defeat Tashiro to obtain the waiter uniform.
Speak to guests until the new lead sends you toward the toilets. Defeat Nishio and the subsequent group, then climb through the hotel. Search open guest rooms for supplies before taking the lift. Use the laundry carts and coin distractions to pass the two armed guards.
After the large multiwave battle, collect the available equipment and recovery items. Use the phone in the break room to save before the roof.
Choose Persuade Kenmochi, then The Natsume arson was no accident.
Sadamoto: his knife, spray and stun attacks make careless trades costly. Take short attacks and reset your defense. Quickstep away from the spray. Tank's EX Unyielding Counter gives an option from Iron Guard when timed correctly; Bruiser users should have Knife Counter before relying on Repel against blades. Watch the midfight QTE and later Mortal Attacks.
Before the final taxi
After returning to Kamurocho, keep a separate manual save. Buy Disguise Fundamentals, finish the collectible and skill cleanup, and defeat the optional rooftop boss before the taxi to Shirakaba if you want all five trophies. Keep the Bloody Crest equipped while buying Letter of Challenge and heading to the rooftop. There is no Premium Adventure afterward.
Shirakaba: choose to take Mikiko home to proceed. There are no loose weapons to build your strategy around. Evade the charged body punch and heel drop, then counter during recovery. His charged body punch is not automatically a Mortal Reversal opportunity. Near defeat, he recovers health and powers up, so save healing and EX resources for the continuation. Finish the final QTE.
The Kaito Files: all four chapters, investigation solutions and bosses
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