Vex 7 Stars Guide: Coins, Deaths and the Three Act Goals

There are no gold medals in Vex 7, but there are stars

Many guides talk about medals in Vex 7. The game does not have them. Before an act starts, and again on the pause screen, the game shows a Level Objectives panel with three goals, and each one you complete fills one star. The game also saves your best time for every act, so a speedrun in Vex 7 means beating your own clock, not a medal threshold.

The three objectives

• Complete the stage. Reach the finish portal at the end of the act.
• Collect the coins. The goal reads “Collect <x> coins”, and in every act the number is all of the coins placed in the level.
• Complete the stage without dying. The death target is zero in every act, so one death in a run spoils this star.

The stars do not all have to come from one run. The save data stores each objective separately, so you can finish an act once, go back for coins on another attempt, and do a clean no-death run later.

Coins needed in each act

These numbers come straight from the game’s level file. The coin goal is the same for the normal and the hardcore version of an act.

Act	Coin goal	Checkpoints
Act 1	22	4
Act 2	29	5
Act 3	43	5
Act 4	38	3
Act 5	32	4
Act 6	43	3
Act 7	42	4
Act 8	46	1
Act 9	62	1
Vexation (Act 10)	69	3

Acts 8 and 9 have only one standard checkpoint each, so a coin run there is long. Act 6 places 44 coins on the map against a goal of 43, which gives you one coin of slack.

Why the stars matter

Getting all three stars in an act opens its hardcore version. The hub tutorial says so for the first act (“Obtain 3 stars in Act 1 to unlock Hard mode”), and the code uses the same check for Acts 1 to 9. Stars also count toward trophies such as “Complete all standard Acts”.

Settings that help with star runs

Two options in the settings menu are useful when you are going for coins, a clean run or a better time:

• Auto restart level upon death sends you back to the start of the act right away. Turn it on for no-death attempts, where a death means the run has already failed.
• Auto reset when best time passed restarts the act once your current clock goes past your saved best time, so you do not finish a run that cannot be a new record.

There is also a Disable blood switch, which changes only how deaths look.

Practical tips taken from the levels

• Do one run just to finish the act and learn the route, then a separate coin run. Trying for both at once in Act 9, with 62 coins and one checkpoint, is hard.
• When you stand still, the camera lets you look around the stage (an in-game tip says this). Use it to spot coins above or below you before you commit.
• Long falls kill you in Vex 7. Some coins sit at the bottom of drops, so check the way down first.
• Underwater sections have a breath meter. The small bubbles refill it, so plan coin pickups in water around them.