It is nice that the rushed placeholder endings are finally getting replaced a year later in a story-driven game, but if all Larian has to show in terms of content is just slapping evil-endings on top of a path they have consistently been ignoring since Early Access, then unfortunately it's too little and way too late. Like putting a roof on a house that doesn't even have its foundation built.

And the endings themselves don't really excite me in relation to Minthara because;

  • Minthara's numerous issues as a character and a companion aren't the endings, it's everything before the endings. Her neglected character is consistently plagued with tons of bugs, broken dialogue flow, inconsistencies, unfinished development and lack of content throughout all 3 ACTs.
  • Also by default she's not even evil, but calculatingly neutral. A surprisingly reasonable, pragmatic and beautifully loyal companion despite her messed-up backstory and culture, which makes her way better and more good than someone like Lae'zel who due to her youth, inexperience and ego only cares about her own idealistic views by willingly endangering the whole world and everyone around her out of principle.

So it is nice that we're finally getting proper endings (which the game should have launched with) and it makes me somewhat excited to finally see a proper conclusion to my evil Dark Urge bathing the world in crimson... but that's just about all there is to be excited about, as it has nothing to do with Minthara other than her potentially being a part of it.

But even now things aren't looking good at all for her considering these are the "notable mentions" for the update:

Originally Posted by Update #7 Notes
Patch 7 also aims to fix several bugs that you have reported, including Jaheira’s unwillingness to follow the group and jump into combat, Wyll’s less-than-romantic greetings, as well as the mysteriously disappearing Narrator lines from the Gortash and Dark Urge confrontation, to name a few.

Wyll is getting more romantic greetings, but meanwhile;

  • Minthara doesn't have a single romantic greeting at all
  • Doesn't have a single variation in her greetings either
  • Is the only companion that doesn't have a romance dialogue branch available
  • Can't be broken up with because of that lack of romance dialogue branch
  • Doesn't even have a romance scene
  • Doesn't even have a single camp scene
  • Several of her Dark Urge dialogue branches are inaccessible due to bugs
  • Minthara & Halsin don't have a single spellcasting voice line in-game
  • And plenty of other issues