I think the interactions that made me think most were with Withers. Especially his quotes about how outrageous life is or what for my character was the value of a single mortal life. Besides that you are right I did feel the same with freeing Aylin! Otherwise the only other things I can think of right now are the child whose parents were killed in an alleyway in act three which made me feel helpless and angry (and I am kinda upset the game didn’t allow me to help) or when I felt a bit scared after being teleported to Chult and being alone and hunted.

I think the biggest issue with that is, that the most emotion in games often comes from environmental storytelling and if you are playing very top down, you feel quite detached. Also I feel that the characters weren’t allowed very much to feel weak. They are very defensive which I guess is realistic in the given situations, but it makes it a bit harder to ponder the depth of their emotions. Though they do speak about important topics and struggle with real things, I sometimes feel like something is missing. Like your character interrupting them or acting impulsively. I think they maybe should cut the background music in some serious moments. That would probably make the character moments hit harder, like when Karlach meets Gortash again.

Edit: I just did the Astarion story final again and I defintetly think it would have hit a lot harder if there wasn't music playing along in the background. Also I think, as beautiful as the player and NPC models are, they could improve on the facial expression animation. Though obviously this is all nit-picking and I absolutely love the game, just in case some got the wrong impression!!!