I also don't have a bias for either route, I play and love both routes and for me it's extremely noticeable.
As I've said: AA already has his own dialogues about Spawn Tav. He also has much more explicit sex scene with them (even if it's justified). This is his compensation for Spawn's dialogue about Half-Illithid Tav and Durge. Spawn scene at the docks also isn't fixed to give Tav any agency. These are objective facts from the game.

If kisses are such a small detail, then it makes it even more unfair that Larian spent their time twice on AA's "small detail" and didn't bother with Spawn at all.
Like I said, maybe for you it doesn't matter, but it's strange to tell this to people that this is how it should be in a thread dedicated to kisses.

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Gale does because he can be utterly suicidal during the endgame.

Gale has 4 endgame kisses! 4! And you can only trigger one of them per a playthrough. Why do we even need this? You can't trigger them all at once.
It would have made much more sense to leave Gale with one endgame kiss and give three others to Spawn.
Shadowheart has equal amount of kisses for both routes.
It feels extremely biased and unfair for no apparent reason.

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And I do feel that how a route is written can make it feel like a path is favoured over the other in the writers' eyes, so that's where the nature of how things are written comes into play. I'm not sure what WOTC's plans will be for the character if any at all, but all I could think while playing was "oh, the writers want Spawn to be the canon route huh?" The same goes for Selunite Shadowheart.
After what happened with Sarevok and Viconia, I'm pretty sure WOTC will choose AA and will make him a villain in BG4.
Like I've said, I'm not talking about writing, it's completely subjective. I'm totally fine with Larian's vision, because Spawn was meant to be a good path and AA is an evil path. I like how both of them are written.
But the amount of content is very much an objective thing.

Last edited by Rote90; 13/09/24 12:13 PM.