is there an option to play without the mini games during sex scenes?
Yes, in the cheats menu, you can switch on "Skippable Minigames", which will let you auto succeed or auto fail any minigame you want and skip the actual gameplay. Separately there is the stat roll option for those wanting a less cheat-y experience.
i checked and the "missing" track was there, so I suspect it was caused by an imported save from 0.16b before the hotfix
started a new game and everything seems fine (for now)
Yeah, I did find one more missing audio track in that scene, so I will be releasing one more hotfix soon. But I am working with some other big issues with the updated Harlowe save system that are giving me nightmares. Now Harlowe often stores big variables as indexes to locations in the html - and thus when the html changes, the index references get broken! Horrible for backwards compatibility. However if you do some finagling in the variable definition you can convince Harlowe to store the actual variable data in your save, so that's what I'm trying to get it to do.
We'll see how it works overall, but I expect older saves will not be fully compatible with newer versions of the game, until the next hotfix.
45 seconds for one section of a mini-game seems a bit silly
Yeah, probably over the top lol. Often times those timers are set by variables so harder segments get set longer. But I should cap it so players don't get super hyper marathon minigames. Unless that's what they want! Maybe I'll have a global time limit setting.
When I play my own game I'm a bit of a masochist, I like super long, grueling, hard to win minigames. But I shouldn't go and project that onto everyone else