Now combat. Yeah. First and foremost, the Tutorial contains wrong information. Fortunately for myself, I checked the player controls on the startup menu ahead of time, which are correct, so I knew what to press. Combat in this game sucks and makes for a really frustrating experience.
The controls are sloppy, slow, and glitchy and the camera makes it even more annoying, especially when fighting multiple enemies, which happens frequently. Having to press Q to start fighting correctly was a pain considering the poor camera controls and the speed of the enemies. They were frequently around corners where I couldn’t see them and would stab me two or three times before I could properly target them.
I appreciated what the devs wanted to do with the surrender options of trying to turn tables, enchant them with sorcery, or surrendering to try to screw them into letting you go but the RNG chance of success made it annoying as hell. If I saw Kalyskah get stabbed in the gut one more time I probably would have punched my monitor. I started getting the hang of it and finding better weapons and armor helped but it still sucked enough to make me want to stop playing.
I can’t say much about the sex playstyle because, honestly, I only saw one scene. Except for possibly fooling around with the succubus, which I didn’t try since I was annoyed by the time I met her, most of the sex seems to be when you surrender to enemies and that’s a little on the creepy side for me. One shouldn’t be rooting for the bad guy to beat your character up just to see the naughty bits. The controls were kind of odd, mostly changing camera angles and movement and a choice of what the positions are.