I really like the idea of the game. But: especially at the beginning I find that the dialogues and monologues are way too long and you don't have the possibility to save yourself in between. It can't be that I have to click through a 10-minute dialogue that deals almost exclusively with the views of those involved. That reduces interest in the game for me. Also, I find that the initial stats of the main character are far too low for early fights, as there is no way to get potions for longer quests. There should at least be a way to get healing potions in the droptable. As a small example, I'll take the first quest of the guild, which can't really be done without potions or the "special" ability of the main character.
Honestly i completely disagree with your detractions, I really enjoy the dialogue since this games more of an Adult RPG, than just a pure Adult game, which is exactly what i want from it. If i just wanted to bust a nut there's hundreds of games, videos, and comics i could use, there's really only a handful of actually compelling Adult RPG's, and of them this is my favorite.
Secondly while i understand the desire to just save mid-dialogue and then load-back when necessary, you can just hold down the skip key CTRL(After reading it the first time through ideally), and breeze through, even on the longer ones like the greed fight it's still perfectly fine.
The balance SHOULD have you weak from the start, you've been cursed, your literally weaker than yourself from the normal world, of course the fantasy monsters will win, otherwise why would you ever remove the collar, or sneak around enemies, or scrounge for the goods of the fallen, or accept lewd acts to get stronger, it would entirely undermine the premise of the game, if it was easy day 1, and it's not even that hard to catch up, spend a couple days collecting gold, apples, resources, kill as many enemies as you can, maybe use the collar to clear a path and reset your health/mana, then do a job, get an upgrade, or learn a spell, the whole idea is you're starting from behind and are making use of intelligent tactics to catch back up to Richard, it would be so boring to just plow through everything, but if you want that then pay for the cheat version and run through i guess.