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Is there any way to, for lack of a better word, "un-upgrade" moves? 

I grabbed Circe's Bash upgrade early on, and discovered that this was a really poor decision, because the "upgraded" version has a strict Aggression requirement, so she has no moves I can always use... and her special move to max-out Focus doesn't help, either, because I noticed and bought it AFTER picking the Aggression-based upgrade. She'd previously been a favorite haremon, and I ended up benching her entirely.

History repeated itself for Vex, except worse, because her Jab was an always available attack that did a lot of damage to a single-target, and turned into a very tightly restricted area-of-effect that did okay damage to every target. Not only was it no longer accessible, it was a completely different move with a completely different role.

Same goes for all other upgrades - Hiss actually saw much less use than Purr, because Purr was always available and the slow drip-off of debuffs means I wasn't often spreading damage around anyway.

There's a lot to love about this combat system, but pricing myself out of actual functioning moves really isn't a  good feeling. I ended up teaching everyone Takedown by seducing condoms, just so I had a last-ditch damage move like a Magikarp that's run out of splash. Vex should retain Jab even after I grab Hades Spear, or just execute Hades Spear when I Jab past a certain level of aggression. Same goes for similar upgrades.

My experience with this game:

1. Start game. Sit and stare at still map as music plays. Assuming the game is frozen, restart. Same result. Move mouse around, eventually stumble on the need to click one specific landmark to start the story.
2. First cutscene. Told the princess is the going to the forest. Back to the map. Still no prompts, but considering the last map screen, I try to highlight or click the forest areas. Nothing. Eventually discover I am actually meant to click on the top of the mountain.
3. Told I need to explore. Click "Explore". No response. Move mouse around, discover forest area can be highlighted. Click there, next cutscene.
4. Cutscenes. Told I need to explore to find tentacle skin. Click "Explore". Forest is no longer highlightable. No areas are highlightable. Eventually realize I am now meant to just click on random pixels of the  map, for some reason.
5. Nothing in the forest, which is the one area I have previously explored and found tentacle skin in. Days pass. I receive no feedback or guidance.
6. I explore "with" my tentacle monster, and begin to receive feedback. I am told to go Northwest. I click to the top-left of the map. I am told to go Southwest. I click to the bottom left. I am told to go Northwest. A pixel hunt begins, broken up by resting. It never ends. I find nothing.
7. At some point, I am told I can form a Royal Army and kill "my enemies". I see a Royal Army button, and click it. I can add tentacle monsters to my Royal Army. I do so. Nothing happens. I cannot tell why I am meant to do this, or how I am meant to kill my enemies.
8. I finally give up on the forest, and start clicking randomly elsewhere. I find a tentacle skin near my house! I make dresses with these, right? No option appears to make a dress. 
9. I check my Journal. It says I have 1 Tentacle Skin. The "Knowledge" button, which I eventually worked out was "Help", gives none. I explore again, and find another Tentacle Skin. I check my Journal. It still says I have 1 Tentacle Skin.
10. I send my monster hunting, because he eats Food. He comes back with 1 Food, but is tired. After a while, he has 30 Stamina. Hunting costs 30 Stamina, so it should be fine. I send him hunting. Now he is Injured 10.
11. Nothing explains what Injured means. I decide he will heal overnight, and go to rest. I check him again. He is now Injured 50. I cannot use him for anything. I use the Nurse option to make him less Injured. I still cannot hunt for food. He leaves.
12. I get fucked and have a new tentacle monster. I continue to explore, hoping to trigger an event that will explain how to do something, anything. Every time I explore, I find nothing, or I find a tentacle skin that I do not "pick up" and cannot use, or I get fucked. If I get fucked, I get pregnant. If I am pregnant, I cannot explore. 
13. My attempts to explore eventually bring me enough tentacle monsters that I physically cannot hunt enough food each turn. They drain my reserves, and run away in the night. I am left with a manageable number of monsters. I try to explore again. I get fucked. I cannot explore, and will soon have another monster.
14. I should try going Northwest.

Please, for the love of fucking god, explain something. Explain ANYTHING. Maybe I'm a blind moron who needs his hand constantly held, but right now this game seems opaque and self-contradictory, giving no feedback and teaching no lessons, and doesn't make it easy to experiment independently. Just spell it out if you have to. That "knowledge" button is already there, and literally the only useful thing in the game right now - don't be afraid to expand it.

Oh, and the map scaling is fucked.