Did they actually explicitly say they want you to feel bad for playing as an evil character and/or romancing an evil character?
Apologies for being misleading there. I went back and read the last interview with IGN (which is where I thought I got that) and it's a lot more nuanced. There's been a bit of noise on the internet recently about how it's intended for the player to feel bad if they chose an evil path and I must have scrambled some of that in with what was actually said by Larian. My bad for not fact-checking.
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Adam Smith I think that the nuance is that you actually push them (companions) toward the worst tendencies... ...So with Astarion... you can say to him, "You're right to be afraid." And that sends him to a really horrible place...
There's a bit of a value judgement in there but it's nowhere near as black and white as I suggested.
