Greed Island
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| Developer(s) | Ging Freecss (Gon's father) and ten of his friends |
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| Mode(s) | single player, multiplayer |
| Platform(s) | Joystation |
Greed Island is a fictitious video game in the manga/anime Hunter × Hunter. It is played on the "Joystation" video game console, is out of print, and sells at auctions for at least 8 billion Jenis (the currency of Hunter × Hunter). The game transports its players' physical bodies into the world of Greed Island, only releasing them when they die (at which point they die in "real life" too), they win, or they use a special card in the game that lets them out.
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[edit] Gameplay
Each player in Greed Island is given a card book when they start, that they can call or dismiss just by saying the word "book". Anything in the game world (treasure, plants, animals, etc.) can be turned into a card if certain conditions are met, and these cards can subsequently be permanently turned back into the original object, or stored in a player's book.
An object's card looks like a trading card game card, with a picture of the object and a short description of it. Additionally, there are spell cards which are only available from other players or from shops on Greed Island, which cast spells when they're used, like showing you the contents of another player's book, teleporting you to a specific city, teleporting you out of the game, etc.
[edit] Cards
Among the thousands of different cards that can potentially be made out of objects, won in competitions and minigames or bought at stores, there are 100 "fixed slot" cards (000-099) which are the only cards that will fit in their corresponding "fixed slots" at the back of each player's book. Once a player has acquired all 100 "fixed slot" cards, (s)he wins the game.
There are two spells you can use while in possession of the ring:
- "Book" ---- causes the binder to appear
- "Gain" ---- changes a card into an object to use
[edit] Rules
Cards must be stored in the binder, or else they will turn back into an object after 1 minute. As with the earlier condition of not being able to have an object in card state twice, the object cannot be transformed back.
The card's difficulty to be found is indicated by a letter : SS S A B C D E F G H. SS being the hardest to find (such as the final card, "Ruler's Blessing) and H being the easiest (such as water or rocks). The letter is followed by a number, indicating the amount of cards in circulation at the moment.
The lower the number, the rarer the card is. In addition, if a person acquires an object, but the card number limit is reached, the object cannot be converted into a card. For example: suppose a card's limit is 4 cards and there are already 4 people in the game who own the card, then the next person who acquires the object corresponding to the card cannot change the object into a card.
Finally, if a person dies in the game, the ring and all their card data will disappear.
There are many spell cards in the game, such as those for attack/defense. However, no spell exists to kill or maim.
[edit] Discoveries about Greed Island
Before you enter the game, you are given a memory card, then, you use your nen to enter the game. However, as Shalnark deduced, just hatsu is not enough to allow a person to leave the real world and enter a virtual one (in order to do this, a person's body and soul must separate, but hatsu alone cannot do this), thus, it is only enough to teleport a person from one part of the world to another. So, in reality, they are on an island in reality.
As with other fictitious games like the ones played in Yu-Gi-Oh!, there has been enough interest in Greed Island among fans of Hunter × Hunter that real renditions of the game have been produced for the PlayStation 2 and the Game Boy Advance.
| Hunter × Hunter |
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| Anime: List of Hunter × Hunter episodes |
| Characters: Gon | Killua | Kurapika | Leorio | Hisoka | Kuroro |
| Groups: Hunters | Genei Ryodan | Zaoldyeck family |Other Characters |
| Other: Greed Island | Nen | Yoshihiro Togashi |
