they removed the gacha mechanic and the former gacha currency is now just a weird extra kind of currency (which I think they also hand out really generously)

I think they also removed the daily login bonus but like... that seems to be the extent of the changes made

the entire ui is still built around the assumption that you're playing on a phone

lots of clicking in specific places that are pretty far away from the last specific place you clicked. technically you can do this with the controller... but only because you can move the mouse pointer around with the controller

also it's one of those dumb cases of a 2d platformer mapping movement to the analog stick instead of the d-pad

that said the controller instantly feels infinitely better than trying to play a platformer with a touchscreen, which is always a miserable experience

also I haven't even met the zero recolor yet and it's already given me enough former gacha currency to unlock iris so hey

I think some of the item upgrading has been simplified too

a negative, meanwhile: cinnamon is very expensive for some reason

On the bright side

Mods

are mods actually a thing or are they just a potential thing

on Steam there are absolutely mods already

nice

the first thing people did was start to restore the crossover characters from the original version

naturally

Offline actually is balanced very differently since there's no PvP, among other reasons, but the remnants of it being a mobile game are definitely still there

...I completely forgot the online version had pvp

I still play it on my phone because the touchscreen controls don't really bother me (it technically has controller support but I've never gotten it to work)

but the move from "random gacha basis" to "everything is purchaseable across various types of shops" makes it feel very different and weird, tbh

I'm glad it's preserved as a game, but the "shell of a former gacha game" context is the only way to explain its design decisions, lol

definitely

I'd forgotten how awkward the translation was

I'm a healer, but...

DiVE's premise of the player character literally just taking on the other characters' appearances and attributes in combat gave them an excuse for so many ridiculous character-weapon combinations