Originally Posted by Elly
As long as potentially triggering content can be avoided by being locked behind options the player doesn't have to choose, like the OP of this thread requested for the kisses, I don't think the game or its characters need to be censored.

I'm sorry, but how do you a romance locked behind the options? The only option I see is to not start it with that character.
Kissing is a reward for choosing this particular companion as a love interest. The buyer's remorse into a relationship with Astarion as a questionable guy should have worked much earlier then, the game gives plenty of opportunity for that if you hesitate somewhere:

- kill in the bite scene/ chase him out of the camp altogether.
- give the vampire to the hunter in the swamps.
- give the vampire to Bual.
- just in the scene of recognizing that your player is being used. In this scene, you can part with him.
- If you have done the rituals and the Gurr come, you can again listen to Astarion and betray him.
- One can choose not to go into the love scene with him, but abandon him.
- One can leave the love scene without recognizing his superiority.
- One can become a spawn and abandon Astarion.
- One can abandon Astarion in the epilogue.
What's the point of keeping the romance on the path of "buyer's remorse" for the rest of the game?
Why can "tragedy" only be played out with AA? Where then are the equal opportunities for all characters on the "dark path"?
Why didn't anyone have discontent before patch 5?