You have no idea how happy we are to read this comment. One of the ideas behind the development of this game was to make the deepest combat system we could in under 2 weeks, so we were kinda scared that the game ended up being frustrating to the players, and the fact that you dedicated all that time to understand it all and even play the NG+ really make us VERY proud and happy!
Indeed, our biggest inspiration for the combat system was the DmC franchise! Also we tried to copy some elements from Zero's moveset in X4.
And yes, we thought to keep a track of the style system to give a final rank at the end of every level, but due to time constraits we couldn't T-T
Again, we are truly grateful for your comment and it genuinely made us happy! The fact that you could enjoy this much the game truly fulfills our wishes and hopes as devs. Thank you for playing and enjoying the game! <3