Thanks for playing the game!
I wouldn't go that far to say that I know, but I try :).
There is a "cursed design" problem of combat and exploration taking place with the same controls, and the movement speed is too low for exploration, but would make the combat unbalanced if it would be higher... so...
I won't promise to find the sequence break, but I'll give your game a try RN.
May I propose: if you don't see any other solution like drastically changing the game, your last option could be to do both. I explain. During normal gameplay (exploration), the player has a specific speed. Then when there are enemies, the room and characters enter "combat mode" and there you change the rules a bit to mitigate your design problem. The player will understand that in-combat and out-combat rules are different, with different mechanics and different thinking process needed to play.
I was thinking more on the lines of:
The combat. non-combat suggestion also works, but I think that would move it away from being action/adventure focused.
Not that it's currently leaning one way or the other, or that I concretely decided what direction it would take, but currently I would nudge it more towards Hades or Rune, then Gothic, or KCD, for example.
Still, good solution if the game should take a more immersive approach.
