It’s hard to describe this so really, if you have the time you’re maybe best off watching some of the footage. But at its heart this is a sort of online spooky ghost story thing where someone has created a completely fake 1997 Sony PS game and built up a narrative: They claim they found it in a second hand store with an obscure message and have uploaded a YouTube of them playing it to convince someone that it’s real.
Towards the end they hit a cheat code and sort of enter an underthing type of situation.
Those are the first two but there are about 13 under the account or something. Apparently there are references to
Honestly this is quite interesting and clever and has obviously taken a great deal of time, but I’m not great at sitting through tonnes of YouTube videos.
I started keeping an eye on Petscop around the fourth video, when Kotaku publish their first article.
It is very creepy and very weird, but the infrequent uploads have made my interest fade. I wonder if any conclusion or explanation will ever come.
Reminds me of Sad Satan that was doing the rounds a couple of years ago. Essentially someone claimed to find a creepy game hidden in the deep web that flashed loads of creepy images, Saville and Thatcher and had children screaming in it. Here’s a good Kotaku article on it:
My mate back in Wales showed me this last time I went down I loooooooooved it (though I was really stoned).
Love shit like this, Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared, etc. Shows how to use the internet’s episodic video structure just as its own medium really well.
Like let’s be honest a piece of horror storytelling/artwork being shown through the medium of an entirely manufactured, fictional videogame and produced in instalments on a public online video platform - it’s just so weird to see what the world has become.
Three new ones were upped today, btw. If any of you stopped following it a while ago, it’s gotten really weird. Haven’t watched the new ones yet, but it genuinely has that Twin Peaks I’m-so-glad-someone’s-making-something-like-this feel to it for me.
Considering it’s on the Internet, where you can pretty much make anything you want in a sense, that’s an achievement.