I’ve been lurking on these forms without an account for a little, but ended up making an account to put my thoughts out there too.
I’m really glad to see others feel the same way about the changes to the AA kisses / censored sex scene.
Ascended Astarion’s sex scene continue to have things added (like the candles, or fading to black) to hide the scene, while more graphic scenes like Minthara remain unchanged. It just seems weird that this keeps happening with specifically AA?
I use to really enjoy this game, but haven’t been able to play it since the patch 6 kisses. It’s upsetting since I’ve raves about this game since its release. I really like the kisses for AA, however, Tav/Durge’s facial expression completely take me out of the role playing of the game. None of the other romance paths seem to have kisses where Tav/Durge looks scared/unhappy.
It may seem minor to some people in the community, but it has completely deflated my interest since someone at Larian continues to push this agenda that AA is abusive/soulless/etc in my opinion. I enjoyed this path since it itches my dark romance enjoyment, and is cathartic with my own trauma. Now it just feels like I’m being preached at for deciding to do an evil run, which isn’t something I’m really interested in for a RP game.
