Baldur's Gate 3

Baldur's Gate 3

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Rain Aug 23, 2023 @ 10:43pm
"Down by the River" in CC is a hold-over from cut content.
If you spend FOREVER creating characters like I do then eventually a song with actual vocal lyrics will play in character creation. A woman sings "Down by the River".

The last of the lyrics speak of not waking you up from dreaming. If you are aware of some of the cut content concerning "Daisy" which became the current "Guardian" that you get to create along with your character then you should know something.

From what I recall, Daisy/Guardian was supposed to be the tadpole attempting to seduce the player throughout the course of the game. Eventually succumbing to this would essentially mean you, the player, submits to the process of ceremophosis because you are yielding to the tadpoles influence and thus accelerating the transformation process.

In effect -- this song is singing about this, but you wouldn't know this context unless you knew about the previous iteration of the Guardian. Quite...unnerving if you ask me.


Just thought I would let ya know. In any event it is a beautiful song, in my opinion.
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KingOfFriedChicken Aug 23, 2023 @ 10:46pm 
I think people disliked the seduction of the tadpole so blatantly, and so many others flirt with you to, overall I think this was a better direction
Simbolic Aug 23, 2023 @ 10:49pm 
Wasn't it Down Down Down by the river? it was apparently way down in the river
Kinori Aug 23, 2023 @ 10:56pm 
Originally posted by Simbolic:
Wasn't it Down Down Down by the river? it was apparently way down in the river
No it was "Im going down on the river". The games perversion knows no bounds and had you having sex with a river. It's no wonder it got cut. The bear was enough.
Subnero Aug 23, 2023 @ 10:58pm 
Originally posted by KingOfFriedChicken:
I think people disliked the seduction of the tadpole so blatantly, and so many others flirt with you to, overall I think this was a better direction
Not really given that the Emperor does the same thing, but apparently worse. Although it's hard to judge since we never saw content from Daisy past act 1 in EA.
KingOfFriedChicken Aug 23, 2023 @ 11:12pm 
Originally posted by Subnero:
Originally posted by KingOfFriedChicken:
I think people disliked the seduction of the tadpole so blatantly, and so many others flirt with you to, overall I think this was a better direction
Not really given that the Emperor does the same thing, but apparently worse. Although it's hard to judge since we never saw content from Daisy past act 1 in EA.

Well he does but also not really, see me and my brother had very different experiences, as our evil playthru and first playthru, my brother went horndog for some reason and he had this really sweet dialog with emperor generally seems like a good person cuz he chose that dialog then he of course got the romance, while I kept calling him a mindflayer can't be trusted and just generally rude cuz I was dark urge after all lol so he dropped his mask and was like "raaaah I'm really mean you dumby" and I was like... yeah lol
Very different experiences rofl
PocketYoda Aug 23, 2023 @ 11:24pm 
You could have sex with the Tadpole in Early Access :cqlol:
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Date Posted: Aug 23, 2023 @ 10:43pm
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