YMMV / BTS Universe Story

• Awesome Art: The semi-realistic designs, official art, and animations (especially in the cutscenes for the The Most Beautiful Moment in Life: I'M FINE story) are pretty much universally agreed to be beautiful.
• Broken Base: The story-creation aspect immediately led to wariness from fans, due to potentially encouraging certain parts of the fandom by allowing them to create basically officially-endorsed fanfiction (especially since RM later posted screenshots of the game as he played it). For what it's worth, there's a good number of restrictions on what stories can be published, including outright forbidding member/member pairings and explicitly violent or sexual content, but the fanfiction aspect in itself is somewhat of a complex topic in the fandom even outside of the game.
• Just Here for Godzilla: A good amount of fans play this game solely to get to the I'M FINE story. The fact that both the reveal and the official trailers focus solely on that aspect has a very-likely-to-be-significant role in this.
• Memetic Mutation: Fans took the story creation aspect and ran with it, with lots of early clips circulating on Twitter of recreations of memes and scenes from shows or creating ... things like this.
• Scrappy Mechanic: Skilled and Pro Creators can add Premium choices to their stories - that is, an option in a story choice that is only accessible by paying Jewels - and get rewards whenever readers pay Jewels for Premium choices. To pick a Premium choice in a story by a Pro creator, you have to pay 32 Jewels. This leads to some authors having the obviously best choice as a Premium choice, to the point that readers who prefer to save up their Jewels for other things (such as the main I'M FINE story) can sometimes be completely barred from a good ending in certain stories. The drastic increase of free Jewels obtainable per day through the October 29th patch might make this more bearable, however.
• Special Effects Failure: Characters move independently from the backgrounds, so it's very easy to place characters just the wrong way and accidentally make it seem like they're floating. It's also very easy to be unable to cut transitions between character actions or for the transitions to be very unsmooth. Both of these can be (and have been) exploited by players for comedy.
• Tear Jerker:
  • The I'M FINE stories naturally feature several of Seokjin's failures to save the others in various loops, including some of them dying.
  • Namjoon's story highlights how the guy at the gas station wasn't the only person who looks down on him. The bookstore clerks regard him with suspicion because he's "dirty" (since he goes there from work) and accuse him of stealing books.
    • It also highlights the tragedy of his situation. He's a smart guy with a genuine love of books (philosophy books) who in another life could have had a very successful life, but since he has his poor family and his father's hospital bills on his shoulders, he's stuck working several jobs (enduring humiliation from random people on top of it) to get what money he can. He still spends his spare time reading books in the bookstore and patiently saves up money to buy books one by one, because they allow him to take his mind off his reality.
  • The reason Jungkook often appears balancing himself on fences is that it takes his mind off things and makes him feel where he's supposed to be - neither one side or another, because he doesn't feel he belongs anywhere -, but also because he liked when the others stopped him by taking his hand, because it made him feel perhaps he did belong with them. This also adds a new sadder meaning to the scene in SAVE ME where, when he's about to jump off a building, he's balancing himself on the border.
    • One of the things that send Jungkook on his spiral leading to his death is the belief that he only causes trouble for everyone, from Seokjin being caught spending time with him by his father to Yoongi being expelled for protecting him. It gets worse if you take in account the fact that Yoongi is the first person he remembers protecting him at all, and the giddiness he felt for that and for getting closer to Yoongi right after the incident is ruined by Yoongi's expulsion and the guilt it causes Jungkook to this day.
    • In Jungkook's story, Seokjin does what he can to keep Jungkook company, skipping the inauguration ceremony, waiting for him after school and inviting him to his college campus. It all fails not because of Seokjin himself, but because Seokjin's father finds out and sends Jungkook away with no way for Seokjin to contact him - with Jungkook now being completely alone again. All because Seokjin's father believes the only relationships he should have are the ones that make him succeed.
    • At one point, Jungkook says it's his fault that Yoongi got expelled, because Yoongi was trying to protect him from a teacher. Seokjin tries to tell him it isn't, but can't tell him the full truth - that Seokjin is the reason the teacher found them in the storage room in the first place.
  • Yoongi's current situation - spending his days alone getting drunk in motel rooms - becomes even sadder when learning how he was when the group was together: he seemed distant on the outside, but was extremely observant and caring and silently looked out for the others, which was especially noticeable with Jungkook. Even in the present, Yoongi can see through Seokjin's happy facade and expresses concern for him.
    • A cutscene shows a flashback of Jungkook dejectedly approaching Yoongi while the latter plays piano. Yoongi notices and wordlessly gestures for him to come play piano with him. Jungkook's face immediately lights up and as he sits, Yoongi smiles at him and places a reassuring hand on his shoulder. A heartwarming scene that also shows just how much they both lost afterwards.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • While the animations and continuation of the BU story were well received, the fact that it's only for mobile phones (though use of emulators for PC and Mac is encouraged by the developers, since it's size is more than 1GB), and especially the microtransaction aspect (you need 200 Jewels to unlock 5 of the 7 available BU stories, and you can only get them either by slowly collecting them through daily challenges, a roulette that gives you 10, 14, or even 20 jewels, and events or by paying for them, much like Gems in BTS World), have dampened some fans' enthusiasm for the game. The fact that the game also puts a heavy emphasis on user-created original stories has also made some fans feel this was a bit of a missed opportunity for what could have been just a BU-focused game.
  • Regarding The Most Beautiful Moment In Life <I'M FINE>: No matter what choices are made, every chapter so far will conclude in a Downer Ending, making the players influence on the events superfluous at best. This was something of a disappointment for some parts of the fanbase, who had expected a BU-game more in the vein of Life Is Strange where different actions would lead to different outcomes.

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