I'm not sure how I feel about this new fight system. The previous one made more sense to me. It was a combination of a normal fight + sexy wrestling to recover/enhance certain moves, so, doing the sexy things there was a part of a winning strategy. And here if you do everything right to win a fight, you don't actually see anything sexy, only when you lose? Why changing the system to this?
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The 'sexy wrestling' will still be in the game, when Grove loses (or willingly strips) his armour, complete with the progressing grapple scenes.
This new combat is an alternative style for folks who prefer more action-oriented gameplay instead of turn-based commands.
In the full game this will be largely avoidable if you don't like it and prefer the traditional turn-based combat style.