Yeah, that's so true, AA fans have a big cartload of trauma and just general shit in their lives too.
And such people are more likely to understand and love Astarion. If the person who came up with this sadistic content hasn't thought about it, then he's extremely stupid. And if he did, then it's a different question of who he is....
I would like to add that Larian decided to tell us the story of the victim and two possible developments of events. 1) The victim found a defender. 2) The victim gains power. I don’t like option 1, but this is my personal opinion, I understand the part of people who like it.
The second option, more profound, I cannot deny that there are cases when, having received power, the victim becomes an offender... However, this does not always happen. Here Larian imposes a stereotype on us. Personally, I find this stereotype an insult. Okay, Larian wants to make AA evil. It's normal, I saw him as evil back in EA. But being evil does not mean mocking the person who helped you. Moreover, in AA outside of kisses, there are no these traits. And what Larian shows has nothing to do with “great conscious, cunning and intelligent evil” For some reason, Larian reduces evil to a caricature. You're evil - slaughter the Tieflings, hit the squirrel, don't forget about the children and of course, kill Isobel, Night Song to your detriment, and then even Astarion makes a comment about how stupid this is. By the way, this shows that Astarion is a pragmatist, he is adequate and does not commit evil, simply in the name of evil, therefore, he has no reason to hurt Tav.
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It's also a shame that the player is the most unprotected consumer. If you don't like it, drop it, don't buy it... It goes without saying that you should avoid a studio that allows sadistic content in its game and inflicts emotional trauma on its own players. But how many hours of our lives have we given to that? If you sign up for a pre-made food delivery service, say for a month, and one day you get something delivered that makes you throw up, you can deal with the provider of that food, no one is going to tell you they're right and cook it the way they want. And if they do something to you in the game that makes you sick, it's your own fault, the developers just see it that way. They see their players as victims.
I defended this game and Larian very strongly during EA, now I realize how wrong I was in doing so...I was disappointed in the release and then I saw Larian brush off criticism, and now this whole situation. But I continued to play. 800 hours and 53/54 achievements. And you know, even though I was disappointed, I still believed in Larian, I even bought DOS2, even though I’m not interested in it. You really can't feel safe in the gaming industry. It is even more naive to trust the developer.
