I do not want Domcaid and the reasons given it by the developers are bad/dubious.
"Getting grappled would not interrupt the flow of combat anymore."
The grapple breakout for Kincaid is much more forgiving than other games with the same mechanic. By making it mash-any-button to escape instead of a specific alternating set of keys, it makes grapple breakout very easy. As it is, it's plenty fast enough to keep the flow of the game going as it is.
"And it would feel more like a reward."
There already is a reward for defeating enemies and getting to choose when to have lewd scenes, it's the Gallery. If they really wanted to still give the player the option of getting to see the sex scenes in the gallery without having to take a hit and get stunned, they can alter the code so that when a specific enemy is defeated, the flag unlocking their scene is unlocked in the gallery. That is how I would do it if I were making a game of this type, and I wanted to reward players who did well.
"It would also clear up which enemies are lewdable and which won’t be (like the insects)."
As far as I know, every enemy with a sex scene does some form of stun attack, and the insects do not. I would think that is a good enough means to determine which enemies have sex scenes, and which ones do not.
I left this one last, because I really want to harp on it a lot more than the other reasons given:
"We would not have to design enemies around being able to have grapple moves and reach Kincaid in any situation."
I'm not entirely sure what they mean by grapple moves. Many of the kobolds do not use grapple moves to stun Kincaid. As stated this reason does not make sense. Only the sabretooth and the slime use explicit grapple attacks as it is, the kobolds and other enemies throw a projectile or just do a melee attack to stun.
For the sake of argument, I'm going to re-interpret what they said to mean the following:
1. they want to make some new enemies that are ranged only
2. they want to have sex scenes for these new enemies
3. they don't want to have to figure out how they can get to Kincaid after stunning her, if there are platforms separating the enemy and Kincaid
If that's the case, and they really want a sex scene where Kincaid doms the helpless enemy, then make it that way for just those enemies. However, I think that because I had to make my own interpretation of what they were trying to say, it just makes it feel like the rationale of the reason is flawed in the first place.
Furthermore, this makes me have to ask another question: what kind of enemies do the developers want to put in the game next that would not include some sort of up close interaction? My favorite enemies are the sabretooth and the werewolf, and I will probably enjoy the Corrupted Kobold when he gets his own scenes. I'm sorry for stating what feels like the obvious, but: I like them because I like big dom/small sub, and I like seeing Kincaid get dominated by them. Am I going to like these theoretical new enemies? What is the artistic vision behind these new enemies that makes them unable to do what the existing enemies already can? Perhaps I'm just reading way too far into this statement, but it sounds like the developers are being pressured to alter the artistic direction midway through development. If they do this, Kincaid will die just like so many other promising projects.
