Baldur's Gate 3 had romance system ambitions got killed by 'time constraints,' like a 'friendship' alternative for the companions you don't smooch

If the reams of art and lovelorn fanfiction are anything to go by, Baldur's Gate 3's romance system was one of its most successful parts. Keep, Larian, your remarkably complex imsim-y RPG gameplay; we just want to kiss vampires.

But did you know that, in the fantasies of BG3's writers, it would have been possible for others to kiss vampires*? In an interview in the most recent edition of Edge magazine, Lae'zel's writer Kevin VanOrd admitted that the BG3 romance system we got is not, perhaps, the BG3 romance system of his dreams.