For fans missing SuperStar BTS, which was discontinued earlier this year on Jun 23, there's a brand new rhythm game coming soon in 2021 featuring BTS and TXT.
On November 10, Big Hit Entertainment's newest game production partner company superb launched the official SNS platform of its upcoming rhythm game, 'Rhythm Hive'! This is superb's first-ever game collaboration with BigHit Entertainment. 'Rhythm Hive' will feature songs and images from BTS and Tomorrow X Together, as well as brand new features that allow users to enjoy multiplayer games with fans all across the globe!
In most rhythm games, players have to tap on descending colored objects when they align with the bar at the bottom of the screen, and the goal is to accumulate points. Tapping the objects in time correctly and consecutively without any misses gives bonus points. After each song, scores are recorded and enables the player to compare scores with other players online. With enough points, a player can go up a rank on the weekly chart. As it is a highly challenging game, it is also very addictive, and the prospect of collecting online photo cards is also very lucrative. As such, SuperStar BTS was really popular, and fans have been wanting a rhythm game for the group along with TXT for a very long time now. Finally, fans' wishes have been answered, and early in 2021, BigHit Entertainment, in collaboration with superb, will be releasing Rhythm Hive.
BTS will be making their much-awaited COMEBACK ON November 20, 2020, with their album, 'BE.' The group has been releasing concept teasers and photos for the members. This album is creating even more buzz because the entire album will be self-produced.
Another recently released game by BigHit Entertainment is BU Story, based on the BTS Universe. The BTS Universe, also known as the Bangtan Universe or BU, is an alternate universe created by Big Hit Entertainment that winds through its output. The webtoon Save Me closely follows the storyline, along with their book HYYH: The Notes 1. The chronology of the universe began with the song "I Need U" and spans to the present time. It tells the seven members' stories in an alternate reality and depicts their anxieties and uncertainties as they confront their futures.
In a corporate briefing held on February 4, 2020, Big Hit also announced the upcoming release of its sequel HYYH: The Notes 2, the recreation of five BTS songs into five picture books, and the upcoming drama Youth to be produced in collaboration with Chorokbaem Media and renowned screenwriter Kim Soo-jin. Speaking to Billboard, Michelle Cho, an assistant professor of East Asian Popular Cultures at the University of Toronto, said, "As an audio-visual experience, 'I Need U' inaugurated the Bangtan Universe-the coming-of-age storyline that brilliantly integrates the Most Beautiful Moment in Life [album] trilogy and continues in music videos, 'concept videos' (mini-films), and the multiform, open-ended narrative that's been serialized in album liner notes and Twitter and Instagram posts."
Mariejo Ramos from The Inquirer said about the universe, "no other artists have successfully mixed the same literary technique to pop music on such a scale." They used the alternate universe and literary books, such as The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, as a framing device for their albums. Mixing the two has created an interactive environment for their fans who make theories when new material or hints are released.
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Written by Ishani Sarkar.
