GODDESS OF VICTORY: NIKKE Aegis The Diver Minigame Guide

To clear milestones in the Aegis The Diver minigame in GODDESS OF VICTORY: NIKKE, balance your two daytime ocean dives with evening service at Bancho Sushi. Use diving runs to gather fish and materials, reinvest evening profits into depth and carry upgrades, and avoid overextending your oxygen supply.

The Daily Loop

Each in-game day follows a fixed schedule:

1. Morning Dive: Explore the ocean, gather fish, and collect scrap materials.
2. Afternoon Dive: Complete a second underwater run to gather remaining ingredients.
3. Evening Shift: Open Bancho Sushi to prepare food, serve customers, and generate gold.

Evening restaurant shifts cannot be postponed. Failing to bring back adequate fish leaves the restaurant understocked, limiting your nightly earnings.

Diving and Oxygen Management

Your oxygen gauge serves as both your dive timer and your health bar. Taking hits from aggressive sea creatures, touching environmental hazards, or sprinting drains oxygen. If the tank completely depletes, your character faints, triggering an emergency rescue that forfeits your entire haul except for a single salvage item.

Apply these rules while underwater:

• Watch the 25% Threshold: When your oxygen drops below 25%, stop hunting and head directly to the nearest yellow escape pod station to exit safely.
• Conserve Dashes: Dashing doubles your oxygen consumption rate. Use it only to evade predator charges or projectile attacks.
• Loot Yellow Supply Crates: Search the seabed for crates containing oxygen refills, underwater scooters, or capture tools like net guns and tranquilizer darts.
• Sidestep Aggressive Fish: Predators such as reef sharks telegraph their attacks by pausing before charging in a straight line. Swim vertically up or down to dodge the charge, then strike their flanks with the harpoon.

Exceeding your inventory carry limit drastically reduces swim speed, leaving you exposed to predators and wasting oxygen.

Equipment Upgrade Priorities

Access the smartphone interface on the boat to spend sushi profits on gear upgrades. Prioritize equipment that removes depth restrictions and increases haul capacity before boosting combat power.

Never dive deeper than your suit's rated limit. Exceeding your safe depth drains oxygen rapidly regardless of tank size.

Bancho Sushi Service Rules

Evening profits depend on menu preparation and task execution before closing.

Menu Preparation

Before opening the doors, inspect your stock. Enhance high-yield recipes using duplicate fish rather than serving every fish raw. Recipe enhancements permanently raise dish prices and customer satisfaction scores. Set your total menu portions to match or slightly exceed expected customer volume so you do not run out of food mid-shift.

Active Shift Management

Once service starts, prioritize tasks in this order:

1. Serve Meals Promptly: Pick up finished dishes from the counter and deliver them before a patron's yellow patience bar turns red.
2. Grate Wasabi: Check the wasabi station on the far right. The chef stops cooking entirely if wasabi runs out.
3. Pour Drinks Accurately: Fill tea and beer glasses close to the top rim without overflowing to earn bonus tips.
4. Clean Messes: Clear dirty dishes immediately so waiting customers can take open seats.

Reinvest your early profits directly into the Diving Suit and Oxygen Tank to unlock deeper waters and higher-tier fish for subsequent days.