1. It's an adult game, for adults. Sorry that the life-or-death combat is presented as being just that... Especially in a survival horror RPG.
2. You are going to lose anyway. That's why the game's so forgiving, and allows you to retry the fights with your original condition and items going into it. Even if you don't, the scenes unlock automatically just for encountering the enemy.
It's almost like I designed the entire game around this premise or something.