Collecting Stars in Café Remix

By now, those who play Café Remix should be quite familiar with the action of collecting stars as they complete different kinds of puzzles. It seems like an obvious action, but there's also a few more related things and finer points about and involving this action that deserve at least some explanation. It might also help and inspire others to make more progress within the game, which is why I've decided to write up about it.

First up, for those who haven't realized it, stars are essentially items as well. While they're marks for achievements in orders (stages), they can be accumulated, as in the case of main order stars (seen in the Past Orders screen) and for the Monthly Goals or Special Passes (seen in the respective screen). The earned stars are equivalent to however many are earned for completing an order or stage, and if they happen to be from Staff Training and multiple Stamina Shards were used, they'll be multiplied accordingly; this latter bit is especially useful for those who need lots of stars right away. Because they're items, they can be collected outside orders too - but this is more of a special case to be explained shortly.

Stars effectively come in two colors, yellow and blue. Yellow is pretty much reserved for stars that are collected from main orders, including ones that haven't been collected by replaying them through Past Orders and earning them. Blue is for the stars obtained through Staff Training, event orders, and other means outside orders, particularly for use in the Monthly Goals or Special Passes. In any case, yellow stars also contribute to those tracks just like blue stars do, so those efforts do not go in vain - as long as they're made.

The means of earning stars outside of orders is the Collect the Stars Challenge, which presently runs at the beginning and the end of the month (previously, it ran only at the end of the month). Completing its tasks allows one to earn many stars for the tracks as above, even more than from certain orders. The challenge is certainly directed for those who rarely open up the game - furthermore taking part in its run of events - allowing them at least to earn things from the tracks and especially if they paid for things like the monthly Premium Pass. Outside of this, stars have to be collected through the conventional manners as above.

Collecting stars is part of the usual routine for Café Remix and is evident in many ways. But then again, a few parts of it might not be so evident, and it helps to elucidate them in order to be able to take advantage of them for certain gameplay purposes. Regardless, the purpose of obtaining stars as best as possible remains the primary directive.

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