Besides Ascended got the 5 patch kiss back. It's the ultimate evil ending kiss now. It even got a new camera angle.
Yeah, it's good, but they brought it back for some reason only in the evil ending, even though everyone wanted to see it in the regular epilogue. This surprises me, would it have been hard to put the same kiss in both epilogues? The scene is there, the technicality is realized in the other companions you can kiss in the epilogue, just do the same with Astarion and that's it. In order to kiss your beloved in the epilogue, you have to necessarily become an Absolute, it's ridiculous. Destroying Baldur in order to taste the kiss of patch 5 again, well, that's a pretty good motivation for evil, you can't help it, you want romance, you have to.
Personally, I like it this way. Once you have taken control of the brain, you are his equal again, so you can kiss as equals once more (Well, technically the player character holds the stronger leash, but both characters have given their autonomy to the other at one point if the pc went through the last-night-alive.) My interpretation of course.
