Originally Posted by Anska
Originally Posted by Ametris
How could they get all the other kisses right, but dropped the ball with all Astarion kisses? Amazing.

Considering how much extra content Karlach Origin got for Astarion's romance, my snide comment would be that it's ok as long as it looks nice with Karlach, no?

OF COURSE it works well with Karlach. rolleyes At least her first kiss with Astarion is no longer exclusive to her. Still, the facial animations don't fit Tav. For Karlach they made sense, she'd definitely be rethinking her life choices when romancing Astarion, seeing what a goody-two-shoes hormonal teen she is.

Originally Posted by Zayir
Originally Posted by Metarra
I agree that the new "You're my favorite" line is really jarring considering he doesn't have spawn yet. Let alone spawn that he knows well unless it's a companion we don't know about. Very out of place. It's like their goal was to prove a point no matter how much sense it doesn't make.

I agree. It's out of place. He would have said "consort" or the like. I wanted to defend Larian and hope for an oversight.
But almost no one, I talked with or reading their comments, likes this new sentence in their romance and almost everyone associates it with the thought that Larian wanted to turn Astarion on the go on 180 degrees and, at the same time, to deliberately hurt the players, who chose this route. If that would be the case, it would be very sad how a fan base and minority can be so willfully excluded from a game. I've never experienced this in any other game.

If it was just one thing it could have been a misstep, but three things that mess up the AA romance? Plus poor job with SA kiss, less kisses than everyone else, no new lines, and his fake smile in the epilogue? Yeah... Totally deliberate. Someone at Larian just hates Astarion, and they made it very obvious.