S1–S6 and L1–L6 are labels for this guide. Any Copper Star opens any unopened star locker; a star and locker with the same number are not a required pair. Floor numbers below begin in the apartment building; the school stairwell is identified separately.
Collect the stars as the story opens each area
S1 — Street trash can, Floor 3
After the blue Triangular Stone opens the street route beside the third-floor elevator, check the trash can outside, near the entrance. Do this on the bar visit so you do not need a separate journey for S1. Pick up the star before continuing the sound puzzle for the USB Cable.
Once the lit Red Candle gives access to Floor 1, enter Door A and pass through the double glass doors into the theater. Search the floor by the chairs on the right. The star is a floor pickup; it is not one of the three boxes unlocked by screening DEVORA.
The projector locker, L4, is on the upstairs route. Open it when you have a spare star and the projector-room lock is accessible. Use the film-canister route if you still need its phone code.
S2: search the floor beside the right-hand theater chairs.
S3 — Potted plant beside the elevator, Floor 0
After using the lit White Candle to reach Floor 0, inspect the potted plant near the elevator. Check it before entering the school classrooms. The school-stair locker L6 can be included in your exploration of this stage; the plant and locker are different stops.
Complete the camera/Copper Seed progression and use the Copper Key to enter the dark TV room. Turn on the televisions, survive the encounter and inspect the shelf on the right for the star. Take the Black Candle and your own color clue before leaving. Continue with the elevator puzzle, rather than copying a color sequence from a screenshot.
S4: inspect the right-hand shelf after lighting the televisions.
S5 — Drawers after Fumus, Floor 1
The second film's theater reward supplies the Cow Skull for the hooked door. Defeat Fumus inside, then inspect the drawers on the left before leaving. Collect both the star and the red Pentacle Stone: the stone is the main-route reward and does not replace the star pickup.
This is also a useful point to review your save plan before the Silver Bottle task starts consuming save points.
Screen the purified third film and collect the Cold Chisel from its theater box. Return to the red figure at the top of the dining-room film-set stairs on Floor 1. Revisit it now to collect the green star it drops. Seeing the figure earlier does not mean the star was available then.
Pause here for the final sweep. Before finishing the developed photograph, revisit all six lockers below. Only resume the darkroom and ritual route after that sweep. Do not wait until the inventory-reset section of Desiderium to look for a missed original-world pickup.
S6: return to this red figure after obtaining the Cold Chisel.
Open all six star lockers
Open accessible lockers as you pass them; save the final backtrack for any remaining entries after S6. If the director's room is temporarily blocked, return while the original-world rooms are still accessible.
Floor 0 glass-door route into the school; take the emergency exit, climb one stair flight and enter the door; green-marked locker along the wall
Revolver ammunition
Stand by the marked container and use a Copper Star from the inventory. Count the opened containers, not healing or ammo totals: those supplies can be spent later and are poor progress markers.
From the school emergency-exit stairs, climb one flight and enter this hall; use a star at the green-marked locker.
Final sweep for Stella Plena
Use this manual checklist before crossing the story cutoff:
All six pickup stops visited, including the red figure after the Cold Chisel.
All six containers L1–L6 opened, including the director's cabinet and school-stair locker.
No Copper Stars left unused. If one remains, locate an unopened locker rather than repeating a pickup.
Check Stella Plena in your platform's achievement list, then keep a save after the completed sweep.
If stars are absent from the inventory but a locker remains closed, check the other pickup stops: stars spent elsewhere will no longer be in your inventory. If all six containers are open but the achievement is absent, preserve your save and verify the platform's requirement; this guide does not promise a fix for achievement synchronization.
Checked October 23, 2026. The staged order and earlier photo checkpoint are this guide's planning recommendations, not an independently timed shortest route or a claim of an in-game test by this site.
