GRETGOR'S PROFILE

author=Darken
@Gretgor: Only worst case scenario I can think of is if the player thought they could have done better and feel the need to restart it. Maybe thinking there was input delay or something. So they restart a save way earlier to try and perfect it only to realize it's supposed to go that way. That's like an extreme completionist personality that might bump into other design decisions anyway.

I think the only real issues with QTEs as an emotional state is that they typically have a win/lose condition and a timer. As opposed to maybe a soft puzzle where you either solve it or leave it as is. If the puzzle is clearly setup to be impossible to solve you don't have the extra possibility leaking in the back of your mind. Whereas QTEs have a possibility you can't possibly know unless you try it again. If the failure state is mandatory then you'll always wonder if the success state exists (though less likely the other way around).

I would look into Florence (watch the gameplay even) because that game is very much all about setting up some really basic mechanics (not quite QTEs but not full blown puzzles either, events without the quick time I suppose) that relate to characters emotions but when they breakdown or feel frustrated the mechanics become clearly impossible to drive home a point. As far as I know there's no way to lose or to be setback in the game, you just sort of go at your own pace. So it's pretty bullet proof in avoiding the player going "Wait was I supposed to do that differently? Let me restart to make sure"