But it's kind of not real. Creative, yes, but more shroom-induced dream than romance.
Transparent blue specters floating in the air doing some weird shit with too many arms and legs spinning around.
If you chose to have normal "boring" sex because you want him for him and not his magic, it just fade to black without anything other than Tav on a bed fully dressed.
Yes, that's what I meant. I watched a video about that Gale sex scene and... it's definitely creative, but I was referring to how explicit the more "conventional" sex scenes were. And I don't mean that they're bad or anything, I just mean that they are simply not as explicit as Larian implied they would be.
Definitely not true of Gale, he has one scene which is much more... creative.
Gale's sex scene is one of the most beautiful I've ever seen in a game. Absolutely well done.
It's quite impressive. I have no idea how they mocapped that thing. Did they put the actors on wires??
But, uh, I'm boring and ultimately went for the other option.
I think they asked the actor this in one of the interviews but not sure if it was about this one or the one on the boat that is in the trailer for the game, which is also quite beautiful. It definitely looks like they were suspended in the air with wires or something like that. I don't think the actor did it, maybe they used a stunt or something? I hope they explain it better in another interview in the future. Neil is going to interview him on his twitch channel, so maybe if enough fans ask that, he will ask him about that scene.
Of all the romances, I was expecting things with Astarion to have the potential of being pretty wild, but you only get something approaching that with his Vampire Ascendant scene.
I was also wondering if his romance is different if you go the 'evil' route. After the interaction with the blood alchemist I got the impression that the lack of physical intimacy was the story showing us that his life as Cazador's honeytrap had divorced that from his relationships.
I'm looking forward to this Gale scene now.
Considering Astarion really doesn't enjoy sex because of, you know, trauma, I feel like it's kind of natural that there won't be any wild scenes with him towards the end, especially if you go the good route. Suppose evil route could have been different though, but I don't think it is. Haven't tried it because I just can't make myself do evil things in the game.
I think Astarion is demisexual so he does enjoy sex but only when there's a deep connection with the other person. If you reject his advances in the second sex scene in Act 1, he says that it's a shame because the first one was different from his other experiences and he might remember that one as something special. He also decides to have sex with Tav after defeating Cazador too so he might be overcoming his trauma at his own pace and with the right person by his side. About his evil route, I did watch how the final sex scene plays and...he basically becomes like Cazador, so nope, I'm not going down that route either.
