Welcome back to Press Start to Continue! Sorry, I was a little under the weather in the audio recording, but made the best of it. Have you ever watched Petscop? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below!

Don't mind me just hyperventilating because I miss Petscop and any content talking about it is the best thing ever.

Looking at Petscop has always given me that sorta of Anton Ego moment in Ratatouille. Takes me back to being a kid and fearing things like Jadusable's Majora's Mask and NES Godzilla. It puts a smile on my face to know that mysterious creepy gaming content will probably never go away.

I get why some people want more things spelled out for them with Petscop, but I also think the ambiguity is partly the point and also a strength. The series is about abuse, and frankly someone on the outside will never fully know or grasp what a victim went through with their abuser. I also think that a lot of the answers are there. They're not definite, but there's plenty to piece together in several different ways that are completely valid. I dunno, I think too many people want every single thing spoonfed to them and it's tiring

In that interview, Tony says he likes ambiguity, and wants it to stand on it's own for it's own sake. The criticisms about how "he didn't even know what the story was" don't matter. Who cares if he didn't know? That's the point. No one, not even the creator, gets all the answers.

Sometimes, authors don’t want to explain because there’s nothing to “fix” or “fill in” by explaining. Perhaps they made a mistake and don’t want to build a faulty story on a malformed foundation. Sometimes they just want you to figure it out, but sometimes they themselves can’t

Petscop is one of my favorite pieces of web horror content. Takes me back to 2009 when I first discovered Marble Hornets and there was such an air of mystery around it. Like - what even is this? What am I watching? And why is it so creepy? I am actually happy that Tony does not want to explain anything and wants to keep the ambiguity. I think a lot of Petscops charm comes from its mystery and room for interpretation. Just like David Lynch is infamous for refusing to elaborate about his films, I’m glad to see Tony is taking that same perspective. And of course, great video as always!!

I'm a complete outside that only briefly heard of Petscop before and forgot about it, but it sounds like exactly what the creator said in the video: the project got too big, too fast, and without time for him to prepare for it. So instead of risking ruining his story he'd worked so hard on, he decided to step out from behind the curtain and end it there. A very brave choice.

I have never watched the series of videos but I probably should check it out. It's crazy how a seemingly simple let's play series generated such a dedicated fan base.

I missed your videos, they're nice and comfy (even when about weird horror stories)

I don't know why, but i remember finding about the petscop videos rather early (4-5 videos posted at the time) but I never got hooked because I felt that it lacked ps1 vibes, which made it feel fake right off the bat for me and wasn't interested and didn't make me feel scared either. There are other pieces of creepypasta/fan creations that made me become obsessed instanty but this wasn't for me i suppose. Regardless I am very glad it spiked so much interest and discussion for many years, reminds me when I was young discussing Ben Drowned or even Yume Nikki theories in online forms. Glad to see uploads from you again :) you're one of my favorite creators

Petscop 2 is a reality at last.

I miss Petscop so much, it sucks that the creator decided to end it, there was just so much more to give us.

man i love stuff like this. awesome video :) finally had time to finish it tonight after a long week.

The boy is back, I’m so happy to see your return

I still remember seeing the 11th release Sitting on my laptop, seeing the hidden Marvin image due to the sun shining through my window and losing it Good times

Nice! I really like this series.

He's back!!

Yes! A Petscop video, I love Petscop

I knew it would be petscop before I even saw the thumbnail welcome back!

This is genuinely one of the most entertaining and just downright amazing channels on the platform! I still remember discovering this dude last year and binging his content!

DUDE HOW DID YOU MAKE A PETSCOP VID RIGHT WHEN I STARTED WATCHING IT FOR THE FIRST TIME!? Can't fuckin wait to watch this

I love that you use Pyro cute little lesbian face while Nexpo only use his KZfaq pfp

If you ever need an idea for a video I recommend looking into LSD Dream Emulator or Yume Nikki, either one of those could make for a good video with your commentary

he did what pyro refused to do

Almost forgot about this game

2:06 unexpected boom

One thing that bothered me about this is that it reminded me of a real life crime. An estranged father kidnapped his daughter because he fell under the cult like influence of a man who believed the daughter was the reincarnation of his dead wife. The daughter was never found.

I'll be honest, past a certain point, I feel like the series was just.. kind of splurging content out without and rhyme or reason to it. they felt.. disconnected.. without the narration, and felt as if maybe there was meant to be more, but the creator just give of gave up and spat out everything they had left in terms of content, just to be able to end the series.

Great video; however I need to say that whilst I think Petscop is an interesting idea and very well done; it still hasn't sold me on the idea of ARG's (and I don't think anything ever will). I just don't think I am the kind of people who enjoys them. For me, I enjoy games to see what it means to *me*; whilst ARG's just seem to be finding just 'what it means' in general. Lore is becoming boring, easy and exploitable. It's like if I wrote lore for a broken toilet. Sure, it's easy to do and it makes the toilet seem more important than it actually is; but it's still full of shit. Imagine if someone close to you had just passed away and you watched a movie that helped you come to terms with the fragility of life and the suddenness of death (something like the Japamese movie Afterlife, fantastic watch; highly recommended) Then imagine someone came up to you and tried to explain that the movie was haunted by the director; who was killed by a family member who was part of a cult and that there is hidden clues and messages within the film that give you hints towards this obfuscated narrative. Did that make the film any deeper? Any more poignant or meaningful? Ugh; no. It didn't. If anything it trivializes the themes that are present and actually makes the entire piece of media feel even more shallow. I mean I get it; kids love this FNAF lore shit because they are too young to apply critical thought to a narrative. They wouldn't care that James killed his wife because he was sexually frustrated, and felt he had the right to take someone elses life just so he could continue on with his own. They wouldn't think about the themes of toxic masculinity; mental and psychical illness and abuse. They would just want to know how Silent Hill was created and the cult behind it. Missing the entire fucking point of the single narrative. (I say this like its satire but Silent Hill origins was actually that in a game.)

Petscop is the best webseries of all time

if i had a nickel for each video i knew about centered on petscop that was titled "the scariest game you can't play", i would have 2. i can't afford my rent please help

2:38 oh damn so this is where item asylum menus sounds came from then

I think some people are remaking the game for us to play yet the projects are commonly falling apart

Cool

punkywaves

For the second there pyro finally uploads petscop 2

QUICK! NOW IS YOUR CHANCE TO BE THIS VIDEO'S 500TH LIKE!

Noooo dude 6 years old me who didint want go to school cus of baldi BRUH

This is generally why I don't follow these types of ARG-style games. They make something unique but beyond having a 'eureka! i've developed an original idea!' concept with their project, they lose interest/get bored/forget and simply don't follow through, which seems to be the case of this one. I can forgive creators if they simply had life get in the way and they had to stop and probably forgot where to go from there, but in this case it felt like Petscop's creator was asked, "Is that it?" and went "ya idk lol guess so", lol. gonna be honest when i say that FNAF as ridiculous as it was/is, one can still kinda follow along and make up their own ending or or use the pieces provided to assume the ending. I feel like the angry user's post at 19:05, Petscop went absolutely nowhere imo and now just feels like it belongs in the generic "spoopy game i found at a yardsale" story bin lol.

I cant sit and watch through the series as it is to scary for me because theres a difference with watching others watch or talk about some horror video or game but there is a difference in playing it yourself, alone, no walk me through just you and the horror of the game. Edit: no I'm not a pussy I've sat through at watched some other horror series like Mandela catalogue And a bit of the walten files (not the 1 hour long final episode as I dont have that time) and played many horror games and playing an underrated (moreso unknown) arg game called shipwrecked 64

Where did it say that Rainer committed suicide?

was kinda traumatized by the video so i went to go stalk my crush and needless to say i got more traumatized by that (dw its not anything bad, just a spotify playlist i found lmao)

I remember playing this game when I was little. My dad was showing me some games and showed me petscop. Me and him didn't really have interest in the game since it was short. I didn't even know it was this mysterious arg. Idk where the game is or if it even exists. I was surprised when i saw the thumbnail for this vid. Maybe my dad had a early access copy or prototype.

yikes

Pyro clone, pyro clone. /j

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