I am on mission 16 of Dante Must Die mode. I had to use just about all of my items to kill that stupid bird though in mission 15. It took about 8 Holy Waters and my invincible star!

Now I am stuck on Nightmare (the blob monster) in mission 16 without any items (but on the bright side I have 21 yellow orbs

).
I am planning on passing it tomorrow so I can get the unlimited devil form. Then I\'ll get an S on every mission to unlock some other thing (I\'m not really sure what it is though.

)
My impressions of Dante Must Die mode:
For the most part, it is actually quite easy. Maybe it\'s because I have just gotten a lot better, but most of it doesn\'t seem that challenging anymore. The notable differences are:
1. There are more guys.
2. Each guy takes off way too much!! A normal puppet that jumps on you and stabs you takes off from 50%-80% of your life bar!
3. The guys can turn into devil form themselves. If you take too long to beat a group of guys, they will usually turn into devil form and be very hard to kill. They will have red electricity flickering around them. Like you when in Devil form, they hurt you a lot more, they are very hard to juggle or knock back, and they seem to have way more hit points (unlike you in devil form).
4. A lot of the guys are a lot faster, and they do their projectile moves a lot more.
And the thing that really makes this DMD mode:
5. The stupid bosses! They have so many hit points, and they take off too much of your life with every hit (one hit from the Knight\'s sword takes off up to a full lifebar!).
The bosses are extremely hard, but the normal guys don\'t seem too hard even with all the upgrades they got (except for the devil form. But you can usually kill them before they morph.)
The weirdest thing is that I\'ve got more S and A rankings in this game than any other time through. Once I\'m done with this, I\'ll go back to normal to get an S rank in all the missions with ease.

So far I\'ve played for over 35 hours easily. The game time is around 21 hours, but that does not include the tons of times I restarted at a save point.
So how far are you? Have you given up yet, or are you still fighting strong? How long have you been playing? This game is the funnest game I\'ve played in the last couple of years. I wonder if any game this year will be able to compete (MGS2, BG: DA, CvsSNK2, Jak&Daxter, FFX, and maybe even GTA3 and THPS3 [eventually

]). I don\'t know if any of those can knock DMC out of the number one spot (in my mind), but we will see.
