We had a discussion about how triggering some stuff in the game is.
I personally think that the fact, that the game is for mature audience and the two first cinematics (raiding of that city and getting the tadpole inserted) sets the tone pretty much.
There are very heavy topics throughout the game and some characters are walking red flags. Our discussions were about Haarlep. Depending on the fact, what you ask Hope (because sadly you can' task her everything), she gives a pretty dark picture of what happens.
I put the rest in spoiler because of forum rules
If you ask her, if she has been in the bodoir before, she says in a very sad and frighten voice 'Never by my own will.' Haarlep and his ultimatum (Have sex with me or I kill you) is bad, but together with the implication from Hopes answer it is really dark
I think, it still is ok, because you can kill Haarlep and Raphael and free Hope. Other dark topics would be what happened in Reithwin - there are a lot of people, who had pretty gruesome fates. Durges treatment in the mindflayer colony etc. The traumatic pasts of some of our companions - Shadowheart, Karlach, Astarion for example.
I personally think, there is no need for trigger warnings, but I'm a horror fan and don't have a lot of problem with dark topics. How do other people see this?
I want to remind you, to put darker things into spoiler tags and be civil with one another. I know, it's a heavy topic, but I think, we can do it
