Training equipments are permanent, money making mini game is a rhythm game and your goal for massaging vip clients are turn all the spots into green hearts as much as possible. It is not a game over if you fail to do it. Also there is no luck involved.
My post was made while in a state of frustration, so some things stated were exaggerated or made out of anger. Though in regards to my GG! comment when you fail the massage you do have to go through the long, laggy process of ending the current massage and restarting the process, made especially tedious as you cannot speed click through texts, animations, grading and transitions.
Training equipment
is permanent-ly in the background, but is a one time boost/use.
I think it was a combination of bugs and atrocious tutorials that resulted in my frustration, and thereby post here which will get a strike through after posting this. For example: during my first playthrough during the SECOND massage, I didn't know the purple X's were bad and failed the first couple times, then realized and stopped getting them but regardless of them unless I 100% and turned every icon into a green heart with stamina left over it would fail, I had to get really lucky with the arrangement to complete it.
I replayed and paid very close attention to the mini game tutorial, it's Simon Says(?), you make the clicks AFTER the images are done showing and just repeat what was PREVIOUSLY shown. I thought it was clicking DURING them being shown.
