tempest- how long would it take to do collect everything in this game, took me around 15hrs for mz, that's getting all da elves and stuff, in the file though, it says 6, since u reset everytime u don't get s rankÂ
 (the 15 hrs is an estimate)
and u said the game was easier, was that with using elves?(there r elves rite)
No idea whatsoever. You see, a lot of it involves getting high ranks (stuff is given out after a level). Then there's the Elves, which are hidden about as well but ON AVERAGE most of the powerful ones are easy to get (I wasn't seriously looking and I got three medium Animals, two medium Hackers, two vitality elves, a sub-tank elf, and the large Animal one). There's also COLLECTABLE subtanks -- I found two, and they didn't count against my rating.
It's easy with or without the elves. I don't know if the elemental chips are among the missable items, but it didn't look like it. THOSE are what helped. The Ice Chip freezes normal monsters, for instance. I did use the Animal elves, and it turns out that they're needed to grab a few items here and there... but thankfully, there's a New Game + feature.... (that's how you use the green armor I mentioned). I did notice a "1" next to that file, so supposedly it improves each time you play it (my timer at the end was only around 2 or 4 hours or so -- it's shorter).
Honestly, the hardest part about the elves is reading the Japanese (I can't -- they left the faces the same, usually, but the new ones are easy to figure out, such as a frog for the jumping animal). The Trance Servers are missing, though -- Ciel feeds and uploads elves for you, and you start your missions in the "Command room", which to me looks like it belongs in an anime somewhere.
-Tempest out.-