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⌈ Secret Post #1565 ⌋

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then please tell me which one this fairly lengthy summary is describing:

“Five minutes in the future, in a totalitarian state that covers most of its continent and that is seemingly impossible to escape from, a yearly game takes place. A bunch of teenagers, randomly chosen, fight each other until only one of them is still alive.

During the game, the deaths are announced in intervals, weapons are given out randomly in the beginning but can be taken from the dead, the place the game takes place in is isolated, sealed off, contains no inhabitants and can turn deadly. The competitors are electronically monitored during the Game, their conversations and positions are always known to the people who control the Game – who can control the competitors at any time if they want to. This means they can stop any attempt to escape the Game. However after this particular Game goes awry, the guy in charge of the Game (not the entire Government though) is killed.

The purpose of the Game is to control the people through fear, a show-off of the absolute power the government has and sow mistrust by showing how even "friends" can turn on each other.

The survivors after a few days are a pair of lovers, making them the exception to the "One Survivor" rule. They knew each other from before the Game, one had a crush on the other, the other person was unaware (as they were unaware of all the other crushes other people had on them.)

They have a mentor, who's is really smart and who has won the Game before. Throughout the game they grow more and more attached to each other, only towards the end it turns fully romantic. Despite that in a random sample of people plenty of nice people should and do exist they kill none of them. Instead all the other nice people are killed by the sociopaths who conveniently decide to play the Game. (So no moral quandaries there.)

It turns out there might be an utopia of peace and justice and it's possible to get there.”

In BR the teenagers all know each other; in HG the majority of the contestants will be strangers, not to mention some will have been actively training to get selected for the game, and they all have an incentive to increase their chances to be chosen. The game is also far more of a reality TV show in HG than in BR (where it's only present, awkwardly, in the English translation of the manga) and how the contestants behave and appear makes a huge difference to their chances. HG contestants have days to prepare and train once they know they've been chosen; BR have no warning and rely totally on whatever skills they have when selected. BR has each person assigned a weapon - with HG, you fight for as many weapons as you can get, or perhaps end up with nothing if you run. Plus, lucky contestants get given stuff specifically tailored to their needs if their sponsors like them. The BR environment is also more or less normal apart from danger zones; HG throws everything it can at the contestants.

... okay, I am typing a wall of text here and there's no point. I think there's a wide range of differences that make me think Collins did not lift ideas from BR. Your argument with the synopses really doesn't convince me.

Okay then. Give me a third novel, manga, movie etc that fits exactly that summary if these similarities are so superficial.

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If they are so different, folks

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