50 hours... Still missing 2 major weapons, 1 brush technique and a whole shitload of mystic beads.
99 Mystic beads = once completed, and you start a new game using that record (which means that you start a new game with your full inventory and level) will give you a beaded necklace item in similar fashion as what akuma wears around his neck. This will give you "God mode" powers (unlimited everything)
Great fucking game. It's insane once you've learned the brush techniques by heart. Normally, when you begin the game, you start with just hacking away at the opponents:
"square,square,square..., kill one opponent, move to the next, repeat..."
then when you start collecting brush techniques and more and more weapons, it becomes completely insane (partly also because your enemies do also become harder/smarter/better), so the fight turns out something like:
amateras vs 2 giant wheels, one ice, one fire...
mist (to slow down time) ->
"source" the fire of one opponent to melt the ice of the other ->
create a grenade to stun the fire opponent while you dash to the ice-less one whilst charging your glaive ->
release the glaive to damage the opponent ->
create a grenade next to the iced opponent ->
mist again to slow down time ->
gale (wind) to blow away the stunned fire opponent's fire ->
dash to the fire opponent whilst charging your glaive again ->
release to slash->
leave grenade next to him ->
mist again ->
block the spinning ice wheel with your reflector weapon to counter his attack and spinning piledriver him into oblivion (yes, im serious) ->
as he goes into his death animation, "slash" him with a god brush technique to cut him in half (a la mortal kombat fatality) ->
gale (wind) again to blow the fire wheel out ->
pee (yes, pee!) on it to get a demon fang ->
slash with your weapon to kill ->
during the death animation, create a grenade to blow it to bits (fatality again) and collect the spoils...
Keep in mind you have to do all of this in a span of 120 seconds to get a time bonus, and all the action happens in real time, like zelda or castlevania, no turn-based crap.
Wild.
Fucking.
Game.