Petscop a game maked in 1997 Where you are a little pet, kind. . .
kind weird And your goal is to find little pets and capture them, and take care of them with affection and love. But, the problem is that Petscop was never finished. It is an incomplete game.
And if you insert a specific code in a specific room, you discover a terrible secret about this game. Inside of it, there is a bizarre underworld hidden, a whole history hidden based on a real murder that is really, really heavy. But, as you must have read on the title, this game doesn't exist, and is all a big fictional story based on a child's murder that did really happened.
In May of this year Emisu, a friend of mine who worked with me in 2014 here. In this channel, and who sent to me a youtube link and he said : HAVE FUN! The name of the video was "Petscop" and the description was "The game that I found", and was basically a gameplay of a random boy commenting while he was playing this game called "Petscop".
I didn't understand why he sent that to me. I had never heard of this game, Petscop, so I just started to watch. He starts the gameplay of the game.
and he shows how the game works, and he shows that the game is incomplete and then, he says that he found a note. and in this note was written the code that he puts in the game. Putting this code, he goes to this underworld.
And he continued doing this serie and showing many bizarre things. And 'cause of him keep posting videos about this game, ended up creating a community, that ended up creating theories about what every single thing in the game mean, and the people ended up discovering that the game is about a girl who was murdered in an experimental therapy session, because she technically didn't love her adoptive mother enough, so they wanted to do an experimental therapy session with the girl and they killed the freaking girl suffocated with a blanket. It's a shit.
It's really heavy. When I started to watch, I was very intrigued. I really like misterious things.
I really like games that make you go through and create theories and that moves a community. So I started to write a video explaining what I thought it was happening in Petscop, and my theory about the game. And here it is, a whole video about my theory about what I think about many things about the game, and it's a video that I'll never do.
Because Petscop involves really heavy subjects, involves a murder of a child in a way so detailed and so grotesque. And to make this video and mount my theory, I've read exactly how was the child's death. There are videos of her being murdered.
She begging for help, begging to get her out of there, and that literally took my sleep. The more I read about it, the worse I felt, and in the end, I gave up about making this video of the theory of Petscop, because I know that I would take so many people to go after this. And, even that this has really happened in the real world, I think that wouldn't be necessary to expose something so grotesque here on my channel.
And don't worry, I won't enter in more details about this story, because this video, isn't about the hidden story inside the game. Is about how the Pestcop, the serie, represents something bigger. After I abandoned my idea of doing a video about Petscop's theory, I saw that the Game Theorists, a foreign channel that I like a lot, did a video about it, so, if you're interested.
. . But I started to notice that the biggest genius about this whole serie it's going very unnoticed.
(. . .
) (his puppy > . <) (. .
. ) that is the fact that not only the game has a really good story behind it, the whole gameplay of the boy recording, and showing the game, it's all fake. It's all written and acted.
Nothing is real. Macabre stories and hidden in video games have been existing on internet for a long time. They are called "Creepypastas", where technically a game have something macabre, and it starts to interfere the life of the person who is playing.
A famous example it's a story called "Ben Drwned", where technically a boy died and got stuck in a "Zelda", and the guy that was playing started to see the boy's spirit inside the game, and the spirit went out of the game and started to show up on his house, and he kept narrating in text. But, what Petscop does that is different it is to use a different concept of entertainmen really new, that it is the commented gameplay, it is everything that you see on Youtube, and use that to tell a story. The Petscop reinvent a format that was already really new.
Commented gameplays of games were very sucessful because of the funny reactions of the people and what they said during the game. And it is not for nothing that this format exploded, because of horror games, like PewdiePie with "Amnesia" or Alan, here from Brazil, with "Outlast". But gameplay is a really gross format, in his concept.
It is basically a person that turns on a camera, start to record, and edited or not, it is only that. Is a guy playing and commenting what is happening. It's practically a simultaneous analysis of what is happening.
Instead of the guy play and talk later what he thought, while he plays he is already giving his opinion and is already commenting the things there. It's a simultaneous analysis. It's an analysis that happens at the same time that the game.
And, as normal analysis of movies, series and games, that the person gives a score from 0 to 10, and speaks what thought about the game, gameplay works practically the same way, but you are experiencing the game together with the person while she adds more content on top of that. It's a way of entertainment. It's a way to create on top of other product.
But Petscop was a step above that. He took this format of reaction and analysis of what's happening in the screen and make all of that be a big story too that you consume. The boy that technically is just recording a gameplay, commenting the game, he is a part of a story.
He is acting. And along with the dark story of the game, sometimes, he makes some comments really weird, and he is talking to somebody that you don't know who it is, and he have some specific relationship with this game's creator. The original video of the theory I was going to do, was that the boy that is recording probably is the brother of the girl that was murdered and is mentioned in the game.
But what I think that's insane in this whole thing of Petscop, is how this boy rethinks a whole concept of entertainment that already is based on something, and he creates art upon another art. In Petscop's case, the same guy that is recording the game is programming him to do this videos, but not necessarily have to be this. Only the fact of him creating a story where the person that is recording the gameplay is part of her, and is all scripted and written, is a great example of how you can take a format, that seems like there's no way to add anything, because you're already commenting above another thing, and you can do more things above it, you can always reinvent yourself somehow, you can always inspire yourself and create art of something.
Although Petscop is about a terrible story, about a girl that was murdered, I think it's a big lesson about what it is to be able to create independent content, about what it is to be able to create anything you want. I'm not necessarily a fan of the theme that the Petscop's creator used, the murder of this girl, but I definitely am a fan of the format that he created. The game and the story of Petscop may not exist, but what it causes in whoever is watching is and will always be real, as any other way of art.
Thank you so much for watching this video. And before leaving, I wanted to thank who sponsored this video. A few weeks ago, I was invited by the Bahia state's governmant to go to Bahia Campus Party, that occurred in a football stadium.
I was invited by them to see how was the event. It was really cool going there. I saw many of you, took a lot of pictures.
I gave a lecture, answered some questions about many things that you wanted to know, about how I created the videos. And there was a lot of cool to see there too. There was a little cabin of airplane landing simulator, where I, like a master pilot that I am, lay like a true god.
It had a lot of things about robotics and engineering too. It had robots playing football and had a space with cars race, where the competitors took their own car robot and they competed. Man, really cool.
I really like the Campus Party cause it encourages people to create and study new things. It's a cool place, so thank you so much to the Bahia state's governmant for invinting me there. Thank you for watching until here.
I hope that you enjoyed this video. I see you in the next video, here in the channel. See ya!
