History VisualNovel / BTSWorld

* GenderNeutralWriting: The original Korean text and the (post-patch) English translation use this for the PlayerCharacter, with the members only referring to them as "manager" or your inserted name.

* NotGoodWithPeople: Sanggu from j-hope's Another Story is a jerk - he's also an animal behaviorist, and thus extremely good at sensing animal's emotions and knowing how to deal with them. His sensitivity with animals just don't extend to human beings.

The main mechanic is [[GottaCatchThemAll collecting member cards]], which feature one member and have a set of 4 stats: Empathy, Passion, Stamina, and Wisdom (with one being the "main" stat), and can be leveled up (using Flowers), and upgraded (using Jewels). You need to collect and level up your cards to clear mission levels (which have different stat requirements, each prioritizing 2 of the 4 stats) and progress in the story, where you'll have to work with BTS and overcome the various challenges on the way to help them debut successfully as a small company idol group and keep their career beyond that.

** Taehyung arrives very late to the audition, running but smiling mischievously (with Namjun describing him as a possible troublemaker), and reveals that the saxophone case found bfrequetlyy the manager is his. This establishes him as someone who, despite his apparently carefree attitude, has other unusual talents under his sleeve.

The main mechanic is [[GottaCatchThemAll collecting member cards]], which feature one member and have a set of 4 stats: Empathy, Passion, Stamina, and Wisdom (with one being the "main" stat), and can be leveled up (using Flowers), and upgraded (using Jewels). You need to collect and level up your cards to clear mission levels (which have different stat requirements, each prioritizing 2 of the 4 stats) and progress in the story, where you'll have to work with BTS and overcome the various challenges on the way to help them debut successfully as a small company idol group.

** Even BTS own shows are subject to this, with the seasonal events ''Fly! BTS'' and ''Work! BTS'', who are framed as episodes of a show that is clearly an offshot of ''RunBTS''

** Taehyung arrives very late to the audition, running but smiling mischievously (with Namjun describing him as a possible troublemaker), and reveals that the saxophone case found by the manager is his. This establishes him as someone who, despite his apparently carefree attitude, has other unusual talents under his sleeve.

Along with the BTS Story, there's also Another Story, seven side-stories featuring one member, set in an AlternateUniverse where the members don't know each other and pursue wildly different individual paths, with the PlayerCharacter helping them in their goals. These range from saving a member's rice cake family business, to collaborating in the search of a lost child, to helping a member overcome his stage fright for a piano competition. They work much like the main story, with 6 Chapters of story levels and mission levels. The "Second Season" of Another Story, shakes the story and the mechanics a bit: the plot, now divided in 7 chapters of around 20 levels each, involve the Another Story version of the members finding [[TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday the Magic Shop]], a strange store that concedes wishes for the price of a memory, with the members interacting among themselves without the presence of the PlayerCharacter; the mechanics of the levels involve using your cards to achieve a certain punctuation, the closer to it the better, but you cannot get too below or too ''above'' the assigned score or you lose. The Magic Shop update also add an extra currency, Keys, who serves to buy additional items whom servee to upgrade certain cards beyond their original limitsi.

** Chapter 7 has a mention in passing of a show named ''More Answers, More Problems'', in a clear CallForward to RM's appearances in ''Problematic Men''.

** The opening loading screen for the game has a music box rendition of "DNA".

** Chapter 7 has a mention in passing of a show named [[spoiler:''More Answers, More Problems'', in a clear CallForward to RM's appearances in ''Problematic Men''.]]

* BreatherEpisode: The [[BeachEpisode Summer]] and Chuseok events are this, with the story merely being about the boys going on vacation. The Halloween event it's also this, though it ''is'' still a (admittedly tame) Halloween story.

** Yunki's first (unmasked) scene has him calmly but seriously confront a guy that took credit for the song Yunki made and sold to him. Yunki then decides to let him keep the song, because "unlike some people, I can write another." This establishes his calm but direct way to approach issues, his bluntness, and how he picks his battles and chooses to end them (leaving his abilities to speak for themselves).
** In his first appearance, Hoseok is dancing on the street in front of a large excited audience when the manager finds him. When it starts raining mid-routine, the audience (with the exception of the manager) leaves, but Hoseok keeps on dancing, unfazed. When the manager talks to him, Hoseok greets them with his signature warm smile and states that he doesn't mind how many people are watching as long as he gets to dance. This shows his immense talent and passion for dance, as well as his warm attitude.
** Jimin is a spectator of the street dance contest, and leaves quickly once it finishes. He reacts timidly to the manager's questioning, mentions being the top of his arts academy when asked but is unsure of why he's being offered an audition, and emphatically insists that he does ''not'' dance like the street dancers or care about anything other than modern dance - even though he was clearly invested in the street performances. This shows he's immensely talented, but he's also shy, insecure and unsure about what he really wants.
*** He comes later to the audition, now sure after the manager told him to follow his heart, with a dance routine he practiced so hard for, that the manager says in their internal narration that they can smell his pain patches. This shows his need for reassurance, his determination and how hard he works in his craft.

** The manager finds Jungkook practicing singing in a room and lamenting that he can only sing without choking when he's alone. When the manager introduces him to Namjun, Jungkook recognizes him and stares at him, doe-eyed. This establishes his singing skills, his PerformanceAnxiety, and his wide-eyed admiration for Namjun (and later, for his other hyungs).

* FeaturelessProtagonist: Downplayed. The manager is this to some extent, their face never being revealed (though their hand appears sometimes) and their voice only being conveyed through floating text in cutscenes, with dialogue only suggesting that they're around BTS' age and native Korean. They do have some clear personality traits, though, such as their HotBlooded-ness and absolute lack of dancing skills.

* GenderNeutralWriting: The original Korean text and the (post-patch) English translation use this for the PlayerCharacter, with the members referring to them as "manager".

* LuckBasedMission: Not the game itself (which requires some genuine strategy in leveling up, doing schedules from the Agency, choosing ''which'' cards to level up, etc.), but actually obtaining the cards themselves. While methods like crafting and event prizes exist, they're a lot harder and slower than the main method to obtain cards, which is drawing. You need to collect 20 gems (which are not that easy to obtain) in order to draw 1 time from the 3-5 star box, which will give you any card [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin of 3 to 5 stars]]... which can also be one you already had. At least you can exchange those for Flowers and Jewels.

* MuscleAngst: Coupled with WeightWoe. In Chapter 3 of the main story, Jimin is told to show his abs for a choreography, which makes him feel incredibly pressured. [[spoiler:He self-imposes such an immensely strict diet and exercise regime that he ends up collapsing while rehearsing alone, leading you and Taehyung to quickly intervene]].
* MusicIsPolitics: Can't be a work about BTS' story without addressing this. In Chapters 4-5, they're outright rejected from debuting (or even auditioning) by many TV stations for being a group from a small company, [[spoiler:and it takes them becoming viral after performing at a birthday party to be finally called back]].

** The items are this, too. The level-up items are [[Music/BTSUniverse Smeraldo flowers]] and the items you consume by playing a mission level are wings (in reference to the album and outro song ''WINGS''). The condition-improving gifts from the Agency are items the members have mentioned liking, from which Jimin's calico cats stand out as doubling as a reference to his solo intro song "Serendipity".

** In 7-1, [[spoiler:the members wander around a TV station. Taehyung finds a drama director who says he "looks like a Series/{{Hwarang}}". Namjun finds a variety show writer that is impressed by his intellect, and almost invites him to the show "More Answers, More Problems", a CaptainErsatz of the variety show RM ''was'' in, ''Problematic Men''.]]
** The second season of Another Story is the Magic Ship, named, themed and styled after said song.

Along with the BTS Story, there's also Another Story, seven side-stories featuring one member, set in an AlternateUniverse where the members don't know each other and pursue wildly different individual paths, with the PlayerCharacter helping them in their goals. These range from saving a member's rice cake family business, to collaborating in the search of a lost child, to helping a member overcome his stage fright for a piano competition. They work much like the main story, with 6 Chapters of story levels and mission levels.

There are other elements: one is the Member Affinity mechanic, where interacting with members in "calls" and social media correctly (as a manager) gives you points, which helps with Another Story; the Agency, where you can make members do tasks that give bonus stat points for mission levels, but you also have to ensure the members remain in an optimal status through recovery items (obtained from beating the Main Story missions and in rewards).

* NotGoodWithPeople: Sanggu from j-hope's Another Story is a jerk - he's also an animal behaviorist, and thus extremely good at sensing animal's emotions and knowing how to deal with them.

* DifficultySpike: The mission levels get noticeably harder around Chapters 4-6 (especially 6), dramatically raising goal scores to the point of pushing your cards to the limit.
** The game takes one again on Chapter 8, which instead of requiring more cards, starts requiring that one of the cards corresponds to a specific member and/or game stat.