I love the base idea of the game but I think the sex mechanics currently don't really do it justice. The first sex attacks are almost trivial to break out of and they get progressively more difficult the more attacks you take and the higher your ecstacy. All of that starts at zero. I think it would be better to:
- Make the HP bar count a factor in how easily you can dominate or escape. This way the initial escape is harder and you get to enjoy a bit more sexy funtime while still trying your best to win.
- Make dominating or escaping cost "HP". This would mean the HP is basically a stamina bar but since it regenerates, that's okay (could expand this to normal fighting too). This way you'd have the choice between regenerating while letting the enemies have their way with you or trying to win the sex fight at the cost of some HP. And you'd have a good excuse to enjoy some fondling while regenerating HP to either escape or take control.
- Remove the regaining of HP by button mashing when downed. This feels unnecessary: just let the natural regeneration do its work instead. Could add some masturbation options to make "sex regeneration" work: I think the character should be forced to use sex for regeneration since that's the whole point of the game (also means you have to raise arousal to regain HP, moving the "damage" to another metric). Rather let button mash get you up at minimum HP (like when an enemy uses bondage gear on you).
- Stop enemies from taking damage while fucking you: rather make them take plenty of damage (exhaustion) when they cum. This also gets rid of the weird "they cum when they drop to 0 HP and when their cum meter fills". Since you have the option to provoke enemy to fuck you, this would further push the sex fight angle too if you choose to go that route.
- Stop regenerating when orgasm animations play (or make arousal and all continue during orgasm animations too). You basically regenerate fully if someone orgasms during a sex scene, which is kinda meh. Doesn't feel earned. Also, I don't think domination should reset: you cum while pounded, it feels weird that you'd somehow have an easier time getting free when cumming already takes some energy. The bar could reset just enough to get out of the "Full domination, can't press anything" but resetting fully feels kinda...unsatisfying?
- Let enemies switch stance in sex fights (e.g. switch from foreplay to sex move when you begin to get close - but perhaps give them a random switch every now and then too). It would make the fights a bit more interesting and your weak spot a bit more likely to get hit.
Oh yeah, and one thing I really wish for is attacks where enemy grabs you while you're standing either starting a sex attack or letting another enemy start a sex attack. And perhaps let any enemy start a sex attack whenever you get downed, not just when you are at 0 HP.
That way sex gets better integrated and the 0 HP struggle when you have to get pleasured a lot before you have a chance to really fight back feels different (and more rare?) than fighting, getting hit and going back to fighting.
Overall, I love where this game is going and am looking forward to it getting finished!