About the intonation in “to leave you wishing more” and “I will eat you right up” I agree, the old accent was more convincing, now Astarion is less playful. But I noticed one positive thing about the new dialog that I liked - the “Just enough to give me strength” line. Before, Astarion used to say it quickly, as if in a hurry, and I could hear a slight apologetic note in it. Now it's gone, this particular phrase sounds better, Astarion says it slower and clearer, more confidently and without any hint of apology or shyness. I liked this moment, in general, “in a vacuum” the new dialog is also very pleasant to me - Astarion invites you to a bite as if it were a dance (such associations it evokes for me). I guess if I saw this dialog for the first time in the game, I'd definitely like it, but the previous “I will eat you right up” certainly sounded better. Probably the ideal would be to combine the old “I will eat you right up” with the new “Just enough to give me strength” intonation.
Overall, patch 7 brought a lot of good things for Astarion, and I like a certain general trend of Astarion becoming more confident and stronger (in my opinion). The new expressions in his epilogue say the same thing (also in the epilogue they improved the foreshortening, Astarion seems younger and even more attractive), the overall trend looks positive.
