How to 100% complete N++? {spoilers}

[Nimportnawak]

100% completing N++ seems like an incredibly hard task, but there aren't many guides giving you a general idea of everything you need to do (at least from what I looked up)... What do you need to do exactly?

So far I have gathered this:
- Race and hardcore only require the levels to be completed
- Co-op requires the episodes to be completed, as well as getting the all-gold badges
- Solo requires all episodes to be completed, all the all-gold badges obtained, which unlocks all the secret challenges that all need to be completed; when done on all 5 levels of an episode, you can then proceed to do the episode deathless to get the !? mark. Finally, the secret challenges unlock the secret levels in which you need to get all-gold as well as all secret challenges.

Is that everything you need to do to complete the game, or am I missing anything? ((I REALLY hope there isn't anything like secret challenges in co-op mode, because that would definitely be impossible for me lol))

[golfkid]

I think you've almost got it all. You are correct that race mode only needs completion, but beware of trying to blitz through and beat all the episodes by maxing out your score.... this will not give you credit for any levels skipped by maxing out before the last level. Hardcore requires completion, *and* completing each column deathless. Again, watch out for this because if you die on the first level and don't back out to the main hardcore menu, it won't count as a deathless completion.

Otherwise, yeah you've nailed everything needed for the 100%. One minor note is you can do solo episodes deathless at any point in time and it will give you the completion point for doing so, and how many you've done is indicated by the "N++" counter on the profile page. On the episode select screen you can see your deathless time in the bottom left corner when you have all five of the ! challenges completed, displayed as "N++: 258.433" (or whatever time you finished the deathless run with).

Also, you can complete a secret challenge at any point in time, even before the level is all golded - you can tell that a run has completed a challenge by the exit changing color when you finish the level.

[golfkid]

Oh, come and join the discord server at discord.gg/nplusplus. There's plenty of us there who would love to help you understand anything else you still have a question about, or give advice for a level/challenge that is giving you trouble.

[Nimportnawak]

Ohhh I see, thanks a bunch! That's a lot of information I didn't have; not getting all gold in levels to 100% complete them in race is a little counter-intuitive lol, and getting these deathless hardcore stories is gonna be fun
I was also very curious of what that N++ counter meant, didn't think it would be for the deathless!
And yeah don't worry, I already joined the Discord server a bit of time ago, but I kinda forgot about it when making this thread honestly 🤣 I have yet to send a message in there so yeah