It's really not only about being happy or not. For a lot of people these new changed expressions are literally TRIGGERING (I confirm it as a SA survivor myself). To the point of not being able to play this route anymore. I understand that this is only a game, but it will be such a shame if I can't play AA romance anymore just because Larian prioritized other people's RP over mine and also over their own original vision. Because we all know that Larian's original vision was SCARED faces before fans asked for a change, not happy ones.
I have to agree with you here. I didn't want to bring up my own baggage on this forum, but this change has affected me enough that I think I should. I love Astarion, BG3 is my favorite game, and seeing the new expressions completely killed my desire to test out patch 7. I didn't expect seeing the new expressions to trigger me so hard. I keep finding myself thinking back to it and crying and it's frankly really messed me up. If the faces were changed to increase player agency, what about -my- agency? The exact same argument applies here. But also, these kisses are extreme content and it's upsetting for me to see Tav so happy to be slapped/choked. To the point that I have to take a break from the game. It did not trigger me before. There's no way to please everyone, so I don't know why people are arguing against having options.
