How many people have actually beaten this game?

Yep! Beaten it, loved it, will play it again at some point no doubt!

I never could get very far into it. The game is hard as smurf and it doesn't do my Ryouga sense of direction any favors.

Beaten the PSP version.

Beaten it one, and that was enought. Though I didn't dislike it I will probably never go back to it again.