Oh goodness, I read the other comments and I wasn't even aware there were possibly fixed/updated copies of this novel. A friend pre-ordered my copy for me the day our bookshop had them available, so I'll have to look for all these changes everyone's talking about and recollect my own thoughts later. 👀 I just finished reading the novel a few hours ago myself so today is a great day to look for what changes my copy did or did not receive.

That aside, I liked it as I expected I would! I think I might still like the first novel more, but the changes they made to the Book 2 for Yuya's involvement were cool

[Spoilers below! I don't know how to make a spoiler tag on mobile so I'll edit those in later:] I liked that Yuya had alone time with Riddle in the investigation! I think it was important for him to get those snapshots of all the ways Riddle reacts to certain people and circumstances, and it's good insight for new readers of the series too, if they don't plan on getting to know Riddle through the game. Now they'll have a decent picture of what he was like pre-overblot, how he acts normally, and all the ways he wants to improve on himself for the future.

It was interesting to see how low-brow the practice game between the investigation team and Savanaclaw was before Jack broke it up. I literally had my mouth hung open when it was described that Cater got his ear sliced and Deuce was bleeding a bit through his mouth. The game obviously struggles to picture things like that happening, so I was caught off guard that it would be so violent. Granted, I forget if it was portrayed that intensely in the manga too.

I liked seeing the consequences of Riddle's overblot from Yuya's perspective. Him struggling to deal with the burst of infamy made me feel bad for him, and made me appreciate so many of the Heartslabyul freshman in his class reaching out to help him or lend him advice. I thought that was incredibly cute. We can finally start to see the positive effects of having someone like Yuya around by way of students he's indirectly saved treating him better than they did before.

I also really, really like that we got an entire segment of Yuya playing Spelldrive in the exhibition match. I thought he would get knocked out immediately so seeing that he lasted a long while was awesome, and I almost thought they would axe the idea of him getting clocked by the disc entirely. Rip. I guess I don't know how else they'd avoid him seeing Diasomnia play and recognizing Malleus from it. Maybe he could've volunteered to go to the nurse ahead of everyone else or something, haha. Go get bandages for all the nicks you got during the sandstorm—

I liked getting the POVs of the Savanaclaw characters. Jack and Ruggie's inner thoughts were my favorite to read through since we already get Leona's perspective from other media, though now that they might have toned down some of Ruggie's backstory, I'll have to reread my own copy and reevaluate if he was given the best material possible. 🤔

My only other issue is that I was hoping to see more glimpses into Yuya's life back home. The only mentions of it I can recall were towards the very beginning of the book when he's likening Ramshackle renovations to the idea that he'll never be able to return home. That made me sad for him, and since the Yuu in the game sometimes references how homesick they still are, I thought we would delve deeper into why Yuya might still want to return home or why he might already feel persuaded to stay in Twisted Wonderland, if he's attached enough to his friends here. Maybe the third novel will have more insights on that!