This investigation series of Petscop is the most indepth version of it I've then others I've seen. Terrible Meme Thing: The Entire Petscop Investigation Series but everytime Footnote is said, the entirety of the Investigation Series resets
Thank you for saying the censoring is not a cheap tactic. It generates interest - the objects aren't censored to tease anyone. I believe there's an incredibly important plot related reason for the censoring. It something that can't be revealed quite yet, but the viewer has to be aware it is there. And like you said, they aren't censored because they're violent or graphic, they're most likely censored because they have something personal to do with Paul.
Im not even in that part of this video, cool! Thats exactly what I thought first, its obviously some objects personal to Paul, and right now its my biggest interest.
Maybe it isn't Paul himself. Maybe his family. By the shape, it appears to be an upside down pyramid. Perhaps it could be something he saw once or something that someone has, or was passed down to him... As a gift? The red pyramid also looks like a giant piece.
His reaction to it though was like "what the.. fuck.." I'm pretty sure? Would that be because he's startled at the fact that there is something personal? Or what other possibilities could it be? Because he isn't necessarily reacting nearly as much at any other point throughout the series. Idk most of his reactions are "oh" "uhm" "ok" or a combination of those.
I believe Paul's skepticism until the point where he saw the first censored item wasn't exactly out of place, like NM says. Take a look at this: even though I don't believe in the paranormal and stuff, and I'm used to playing horror games, if I found a game like Petscop that have strong indications that it is kind of haunted in some way, I would, just like Paul, hold on to anything I could possibly imagine to justify why things are happening the way they are happening. It would help me keep my cool if I could find a logical reason for everything. And I believe the moment he sees the censored thing that comes out of the gift box is the moment he can literally throw his logic through the window, cause apparently it is something without a proper explanation. This, or maybe it's a image from poor Tiara Newmaker's "rebirth" session. That would make me react the same way he did too, and would force me to censor that part of the video as well.
okay so about the eyebrows being a recurring theme (and also referring back to the "sentiment vs logic" thing with the Pen puzzle): eyebrows are the part of the face that express the most emotion. That's why people who shave their eyebrows look so odd; they look emotionless, you cant tell how they're feeling. Mouth and eyes also express emotion but to a lesser degree, eyebrows are by far the most expressive part of the face, so without them everything just looks wrong. just a thought.
@@nikkidefilippo3459 Actually no. Nightmare Masterclass mentions that the even and odd numbers match up between the flower and the treadmill, however he doesn't notice that the numbers are also in sync to the petals being pulled.
My thoughts on the flower is that it is like a game of "she loves me/she loves me not", where the an even number (which had a red tint as though bad) would always end with "loves me not", as you typically start with "loves me". Thus by setting the number to negative one, it's not only taking away the very option to play the game, but it's as though they're saying "Don't be ridiculous, of course nobody loves you" (Actually the opposite is likely true. Thank you Ed Boi). Which may explain why care's description says that you had to lie to catch her, but it may not be a lie forever. The lie possibly being that nobody loves her (Again the opposite). Though all of that is just speculation
Actually 0 is an even number and is shown in red on the counter and -1 is an odd number which is in pink, so it would make more sense if setting it to -1 means you are lying by telling her there is an extra petal so it switches to "he/she/they love me" when really there's no petals left.
Well it wasn't intended to be a debate. And even if it were an inherent fact that would only make it more necessary to point it out as one should get their facts straight before delving into theories.
The symbol on the cake is probably not a "P," but a backwards "9." Remember that Mike was only 7 when he died, and Mike seemed to have some kind of connection to Care, who has some type of connection to the windmill girl (same eyes.) The room is probably belonging to the windmill girl, and she was probably turning 9.
You say the fact that Paul only has 201 pieces on his test save is evidence that he did not make it very far, but the other possibility is that he simply is not going out of his way to collect the pieces on his test save. Note that he does mention that none of the oddities occurred and includes the mirror room. In his original play through Paul has 212 pieces by the time he gets to the mirror room, so he must have skipped at least a few. This leads to the possibility that the "oddities" are tied to the number of pieces collected.
You forgot to mention a very important thing: Petscop 3 8:30 - Note says "When you find her room, the passage to my right will lead to her." Notice passageway was always there, but it wasn't lit, and, just like in many other places in the game, when Paul went there the camera stayed fixed. Now, when he's "found her" the passage is accessible.
Seems like TOOL is expecting Paul to enter a datetime (a year when asking what year is it, a month when asking what month is it) when it prompts him with the calendar icon. The PS1 had no internal persistent clock, so asking "what year is it" essentially lets you set that time. The clock on the wall in quitters room could also represent total game play time.
The room that he censored was Care with eyebrows, he states in a later upload that him and Care look similar, what if it's his room. I had this idea while watching the video. I'm pretty sure it's true. The other items that are censored have to be something some what personal hence why he is so wierded out by them. This would also explain when he mentions finding his own room and being suprised, this is a bit of a rant but I think I got my point across.
Exactly - that's why he tries to dismiss it as "maybe they put that in _any_ room", implying that the really strange part is that it's in _this_ room. Assuming the censors are identifiable or personal, that makes this _his_ room.
Two notes regarding Pen's description as you raised a really interesting point: Music = Sentiment, Mathematics = Logic. Pen is good with logic but she is incapable of processing music and perhaps by extension sentiment. The description "I don't know what she's doing here." seems to me like a rather disturbing message from someone that the world of Petscop does not follow logical or rational rules (even though it seems to have a cohesive narrative). Pen's logic is useless because of this: so her presence here is hopeless. This ties in with the idea of the "Newmaker Plane" being some sort of purgatory or even a Hell of some kind in which rules like time have no meaning. This further connects things like "I've forgotten what birds look like", which is suggestive of someone trapped for a very long time, perhaps. You drew a parallel between Pen and Paul both being able to solve the puzzle in which she is "Caught" by logic, even without the "sentiment" of music. This is a connection between the two. Does this also mean there is an inferrence there that Paul is good with logic, but bad with emotion and sentiment? He is good at solving the puzzles but he seems to express no sadness or concern at the fate of Care when he's picking the daisy petals and she becomes seemingly disfigured, the suffering of the "Purple tool" in the first discussion with it is ignored and he seems to put progressing in the game above any kind of emotional interaction with it. Even the most disturbing occurrences mostly elicit dull surprise or curiosity from him rather than an emotive response.
I think that Paul is acting aloof in large part to show his skepticism that there is anything "wrong" or supernatural about the game (as people have pointed out, a common trope in horror).
HOLD ON. WE SPEAK ABOUT EVEN NUMBERS BEING NEGATIVE! THE ABOVE PLACE IS CALLED EVEN CARE. CARE, AS WE KNOW, IS THE NAME OF THE CHILD. AND ALL THE OBJECTS IN EVEN CARE RELATE TO THOSE BELOW. Perhaps the unfinished aspect of the game is completely false, it's just that Care is currently even, not loved, negative, however since we are the Newmaker, we can bring her positivity and perhaps bring Odd Care or some other place that corresponds with a more positive environment down in the Newmaker Plane
In the about page on the TH-cam channel it says; "'Rainer' gave this gift to us on Christmas 1997 and 2000. It was the single longest day of our lives. We were all certain he was dead at the time. He had been missing since June 1997 and 2000." And at 26:30 the note was written by Rainer Newmaker. I think that is a huge piece to this story as it connects that the channel and the game have something personal we don't know about.
First of all, I love your videos! Now, a few things I wanted to add: 1. The Color Theory; there is a great theory that the different colors of the Tool represent different entities in the game "possessing" it which accounts for the color and tone change. I personally believe this one, since the different colors say completely different things, and the game associates different characters with different colors (purple for Tiara, yellow for Care, I think red for Mike). This explains the contradictions as well. 2. I always thought that instead of the game "predicting" the movement, we're seeing a time manipulation. We're actually seeing Paul from a few minutes ahead, only we're seeing it now in a time loop. That's also what I thought happened with the windmill - we see the windmill, then a shadow man enter it, then leaves and the windmill eventually disappears (yes, not immediately, but I feel like this time loop is not consistent and definitely has fractures to it) which is exactly what Paul does later on. This makes me think we're seeing a lot of things from the future, and that things may be more sinister than we think. It won't surprise me if at one point we'll be back in the windmill, but this time exit and move toward the camera to spell things out for our past selves. ESPECIALLY if you consider the "about" page on Petscop, where there are strange time stamps "1997 AND 2000"
I have only recently found out about the Petscop series and therefore only recently found your channel and your take on an interpretation. I must say that I like your analysis on Petscop the most from what else I've seen on TH-cam so far! When I saw you did more than one part of it and it was longer than 20 minutes I knew it had to be very throrough and I was not disappointed. I find your interpretations very interesting and agree with them, and also you have pointed many things out I would've never noticed myself! All in all, I HAD to jump to this video the moment I saw you uploaded it! I'm really looking forward to your conclusion, almost as much as I'm looking forward to an update on the Petcop channel itself. You take your time with your videos, cover so many details, and it makes your content very enjoyable. Thanks for the great work!
Paul suppose to collect 1000 pieces and go to the device look like fireplace in the very first room on newmaker plane. For the censored gift box, I think he's getting some weird threatening message or picture so he's censored it. Another things that is weird is how Paul can back up his save file. There isn't any button to back the file up. Only erase file is able. Right switch in the cage is also in different position as well as "come here" message which should be in the note on Quitter's room. That little girl in Quitter's room might be the last ? Pet in pet menu
I don't know the conditions necessary to allow that, but if you want i could put subtitles on your videos (using the youtube functionality) (in english and french anyway) because i want to share it with my friends but their english isn't so good but i want to be able to share your analysis in a way that doesn't remove the ambiance of your videos.
Below the subscription box, under "more" there is a way to add translations to the video. The most accurate way to have subtitles for your friends is if you actually go through the whole video and do it yourself, or ask someone else to help/do it for you.
I know, but it tells me that this video isn't compatible with community contribution, and i'm not sure if it's up to the creator or youtube itself EDIT: After checking my own channel it seems to be up to the creator to allow subtitles to be made for the video, we're gonna have to wait for an answer from him More info: support.google.com/youtube/answer/6052538
Here’s a quick theory, following the “find one that you like” idea. There are different “generations” of the game and the one with “find one that you like” is an earlier generation. Because of this, it was made into “find somebody that you like” in later development, for an unknown reason but I predict it has something to do with the idea that was described about granting status. This is why the piano keys are missing and the treadmill has different and unique numbers. It was more incomplete than the “latest” version.
EDIT: At the end you said that you are aware of the changes to the youtube channel. So think this comment is "obsolete". You have missed a part. Read the Channel info of Petscop. "Rainer" gave this gift to us on Christmas 1997 and 2000. It was the single longest day of our lives. We were all certain he was dead at the time. He had been missing since June 1997 and 2000. We're not as concerned about these things now. Please enjoy the recordings! We do. :)
Based Fox Right? You'd think the term "Newmaker" would be since it appears to be a title of sorts, but no. Reiner is. Weird. In the game Paul sees his doppelganger who seems to be mirroring his movements, even predicting future ones. So could Reiner and Paul be the same person? The game refers to both of them as "the Newmaker". Is Reiner the "shadow monster man"? Also a thing to note: Marvin seems to be the one one of the notes was talking about- he is supposed to have a daughter and a friend who disappeared along with the windmill. Is Reiner that mysterious friend who disappeared? Is it Paul?
HOLY SHIT I FIGURED IT OUT! So you know how Paul appears to be talking to someone? Someone who apparently played this game at some point and who presumably left the note to help him? I know why we never see or hear them. That's because... Paul is talking to HIMSELF. He gave himself the game. He is the Newmaker, he's two people- he's Paul and Reiner.
These have aged SO WELL. There's so much going on in petscop that it's been hard for me to wrap my head around it, but these videos help so much. I've watched three other analysis series, and this is the ONLY ONE that makes sense. It helps that youre only analyzing what's there and pointing out details without theorizing on what it could all mean-because the theories become outdated pretty fast in these series. I love the English major approach. Thank you for your hard work!
I'm really glad I started watching your videos. The video by video in depth analysis is allowing me to see things I didn't realize before -- and hadn't realized just watching the other popular theory videos (cough). The fact that he had to look at Pen's description to realize how to catch Care NLM -- and then subsequently, WHY he went through the closing and opening of doors in Amber's room - reading Care's description of "You had to lie to her": i.e. something must be done at the place where you've already lied to a "her" to progress. I wouldn't have connected those dots without you!
Hello, I agree with Another Skeleton the censorship really freaks me out. Actually, all this is freaking me out and quite frankly I get super anxious for not knowing more as I keep watching your series.
I love the music you did for these videos so much I have the ost on Bandcamp, but I was wondering if there’s somewhere I could listen to the songs not included in it, like the one at 3:15. Love all these videos a ton
At 27:46 when you mention the cake, you said there is a letter “p” on it, but because of new Petscop videos it’s been theorized to actually be the number 9 backwards. The reason is because, when we find Lina’s gravestone in video 17, before we find her, the text says that when a girl went missing her father put out birthday girl signs instead of missing girl signs. And then her grave pops up, and according to the dates on the grave, Lina apparently died at the age of 9. And when we enter the “party room” in video 9, it’s all referencing the “birthday girl” that the father was looking for. And of course the party room is located in the back of what we now know as “Lina’s Room” in the child library. So that cake would have a backwards 9 and be for Lina.
Guys the avatar kinda looks like a duckling to me? Like with the roundish freatures and yellow triangle being the beak? And the big flipper like feet? IDK...?
I had just made a mental note of this. It should be mentioned that "Tool" vaguely, by context and appearance, resembles something that one might hit someone with, which makes more sense that such the object is in a couple of kids' rooms. Granted, it also looks a little like a drinking gourd but it also looks like something akin to a paddle or, alternatively, a guitar (or something).
I love this series! You've really done an excellent job of breaking everything down and pointing out details I missed. I came to the same conclusion about the censors. The narrator doesn't seem squeamish enough for it to have been something graphic. Plus, our own imaginations are always scarier than any artist can create.
Thank you so much for doing these videos on Petscop, it's really helped put even more things into perspective for me and I very much look forward to seeing your final analysis video!
Both of the censored items, the one on the table and the one in the gift box do share a similarity. At the very bottom of the censor box on the table you can see an emanation of red peeking out. The censored item in the gift also has a red, this time flaring out. Whether the gift that was censored is suppose to have censored something alternate than the red flaring out we won't know for a while I'm sure.
Your conjectured explanation for why certain objects are censored is legitimately brilliant. It perfectly explains why they would be censored at all, Paul's odd reactions to them, while also making the series a hell of a lot more creepy and personal than I thought it was before. I've been frustrated with how easily people dismiss the censored objects as either cheap mystery or completely inscrutable, and yours is the first video I've seen that's actually tried to dig into why they would be censored at all, and what Paul's peculiar reaction says about their significance.
Brilliant as usual, spefically the analysis of the censorship as I found it quite confusing at first. I think your theory about personal association is spot-on and connects many of the dots
If I'm being honest, this is the best analysis of an online series I've yet to see. Fantastic job, I now think you are better than night mind, in quality. P.s.: I have a few suggestions that you could cover: mushroomland, DHMIS, lasagna cat. do them if you want, I won't be pushy.
I was watching part 1 and 2 and I was like "Hm there's no part 3 so I'll just subscribe and wait for the next one" and then like two hours later you upload it
happy62ful because he dropped off Care NLM, and the game said something along the lines of coming back in six months, which would probably be around December.
Hey there Nightmare Masterclass, Petscop has recently released episode 11,12 and 13! I hope you're making another episode to this genius and amazing series of yours. I noticed one thing, and I don't know if it's relevant or not, but maybe someone with your skill can figure it out. Petscop isn't just about the gameplay, it's about the channel too. In the description of episode 5 he wrote about the questions Paul had asked 'the tool', this was in your video. From episode 6 to 10 he didn't have anything in his description, but in episode 11 he did... "Everything we wish to say is below: The purpose of this TH-cam channel is to preserve and display the recordings within the video game "Petscop" while keeping some of their content private. They were first given to us as a Christmas gift, many years ago. The game had an interesting journey, before and after that day. Paul created some additional recordings in 2017 as a way to show Petscop gameplay to his friend. He created this account in order to upload those additional recordings in video format. He later passed ownership of the channel to us, but continued to record himself at our strong suggestion. Though he had issues with the arrangement, these have finally been settled. Please enjoy the recordings in Petscop! We do. :)" Here again there's a third party, just like the ones who censored a few things. This is also the description in episode 12 and 13. If this isn't part of the mystery, I don't know what is. Please look into this. On a side note, his banner is completely black, but maybe if we light it up it's hiding something? Maybe his profile picture is hiding something? are the upload dates and the lengths of the videos of importance? Maybe it's a number code? But that's all just guesswork.
There is something very interesting and significant that you didn't touch on in this video. Maybe you were going to in the fourth installment, but either way. The timing of Paul picking the flower petals in Petscop 2, is exactly the same as the timing of the demo avatar running on the tredmill in Petscop 9. Check it out: th-cam.com/video/Rc7hxKGVEWM/w-d-xo.html
Who tf was the one guy who disliked this you put in so much time and effort into this series. And even though it isn't successful you continue it anyways Something not many others are willing to do You are my role model, I love you
That was one of the best analysis I've ever seen about Petscope. Your voice so clear that I could understand all what you said easily in this video and the previous ones (English is not my mother language) All my respects to you for the incredible research and the amount of time you invested for giving us a clear point of view of all the little hints in original Petscope videos. I'll be waiting for part 4!! Awesome video and awesome investigation! Regards
Dude i just found your channel today and after watching your Petscop series I gotta say you deserve way more subscribers, you explained the whole situation more clearly than anybody else has and you shed some unique light on it, I subscribed and I can't wait to get more content from you.
I just want to say that from watching these videos off of Petscop i am subscribing to your channel, and i must say these three videos were very well made and have been made from good effort.
I think you've really mastered your commentary style with these Petscop videos, found the channel last night (subbed) and I binged a lot of your videos, they're all great but this series is so far the best quality of production and narration and you've by far provided the most thorough and in depth analysis of Petscop, and I can't wait for part 4.
nice analysis dude, much better than other ARG and web series focused channels that just summarize what happened without really analyzing what it means
Another excellent video dude, The editing and the clear way you presented everything is amazing- keep it up. You might be a bit deep in the 4th video now but I think it might be interesting to see your opinion on how all the characters relate to each other and what kind of narrative Petscop is presenting outside the game world so far. I think it would be cool of you to go through some of the characters and they're implied stories, for example Marvin being someone who is possibly trapped in the game as well as the mysterious Rainer who is only mentioned twice, in game and in the new TH-cam "about" section but seems to play a bigger part than is told. Again thank you for making these I love listening to these videos when I work over and over and really gives a clean way of finding out about Petscop for those who are new. I'm looking forward to what your next video series will be, I love your other videos too, but these long form analysis videos are some of the best and I cant' wait to see what you will do next.
I love how you pick small and subtle details that are so important to the full understanding of the game. Also I have a really crazy theory, I mean, the events passed 16 years ago, and maybe considering the month it ocurred and the time it took the procedure of putting the culprits in jail, they may be going out of jail this year if they didn't have yet. So maybe this webserie is trying to raise awareness and make people talk about it again, so these people who killed Care could remember what they did... I mean, I'm just basing this on the dates these are ocurring. But again, just a crazy theory. Again I love your videos and I will be waiting the next one
I believe the pet Pen's description is linked to the Candace Newmaker theory. This game is supposed to portray you as a selfish person which treats adopted children as gifts that can be returned, just like Jeane Newmaker did. The description of that pet fuels the theory - it tells you about her disability, and then says "I don't know what she's doing here". "Here" is most likely meant to be Paul's inventory. She's seen as useless, defective and is supposed to be returned. All children and pets in the game are suppposed to symbolize Candace, and you are Jeane. You don't try to help them by showing love and patience, you go with the quick solution, like when you give away Care. It goes beyond name parallels and references.
One thing to note: The way the avatar pauses on 3 sort of correlates with how Paul left the shed above Care NLM, with only 3 petals remaining on the daisy, before coming back to pick the last petals off. That was one of the other ways Even Care is similar to Newmaker Plane, with the treadmill being linked to the daisy.
The game is slowing changing degrade the pets or kids into objects that you can have as things and not beings throughout the game. Paul has obviously treated the game with little feeling, like what the game evolves into in the end, with no consideration or second look at actions or pets. This brings up the question to whether the game is evolving based off of Paul's rather rushed and careless actions. For example, the starts off saying 'somebody', and later says 'one'. Paul didn't see the car cross the road the first time so that he could rush to the next part, but later went back to the same spot and investigated. Or even Paul re-catching Care, while the game tells you to just give her back. The game starts off thinking off the pets as beings, while Paul is careless. In later episodes, the game thinks of pets as 'things', while Paul checks over his actions more considerately.
32:11 could be another sign of conditioning to progress in the game. A lot of (especially longer) strategy/puzzle/adventure games rely on exhausting the player or relying on other previous adventure games on exhausting the player into a mindset of “if I can do I will do it because it’s progress”
Not sure if already mentioned but Marvin being confused, The Tool saying "you'll never go home", the conversation Paul has about the game changing since 2004, What if its possible to set the console date to an earlier year and seeing if that yeilds new events? Either way I'm loving this Series and Petscop as a whole. Very well done and Entertaining videos
Me: Wow, I'd sure like a nice, long TH-cam video to watch while I chill at the end of the day. Nightmare Masterclass: [DELIVERS] Haven't even watched it yet, but thank you! :3
One interesting element to further the idea that the game anticipates your movements : in PetScop 6, right before the windmill starts going backwards, the camera captures a shadow person (which we could assume, at first, to be Marvin too) going behind the windmill, and exiting after the rotation changed, in the exact manner that shadow monster Paul enters the windmill to "find Care", collects the "gifts", and exits the windmill to find it's started rotating counter clockwise. I believe that it's a projection of future Paul, as opposed to the shadow of Marvin, which appears 1 hour and 24 minutes later, just like we see a projection of a close-future Paul in Care's room. Furthermore, the game seems to start by copying Paul's movement, for example, when he's in the Quitter's Room. It's possible that PetScop taught itself the movements and thought processes of Paul. Finally, a more credible theory would be that Paul is not playing, and that this doesn't happen after the previous PetScop episode, but, rather, before/during the first PetScop episodes. It could be that someone else is playing the game and finding Care in the windmill, while Paul has let the game idling and recording. If Paul is not talking in a segment of footage, we have no reason to assume that this segment is in linear progression with Paul's perspective through his play-through. We essentially lose our only time anchor. Also, the general idea behind the tinting of even numbers follows the rule of "Love me/Love me not". When you've removed every petal, you land on Love Me Not, which should explain the distraught state of Care NLM. By moving the treadmill to -1, you add a petal, landing on Love Me, and Care NLM feels better. But you lied to her.
If you look closely at the bottom of the first censor it seems like it is covering a red object that is laying on the table. Later the second censor is some form of red animated pyramid, I think it is more likely that Paul was surprised to see the same item in two different places and to see it animated than that this strange red shape somehow identifies him. So far the model cars show up at one point and are animated but nothing else crosse over from the rooms, except the censors.
Reminder: "Rainer" gave this gift to us on Christmas 1997 and 2000. It was the single longest day of our lives. We were all certain he was dead at the time. He had been missing since June 1997 and 2000. We're not as concerned about these things now. Please enjoy the recordings! We do. :) This is the description of the Petscop TH-cam channel, and it may help you out mate, great series dude!
not only do the daisy and treadmill correlate approximately, but Paul actually triggers each petal pick and treadmill run at exactly the same time, with the pause on the treadmill being Paul leaving the daisy room and coming back later.
I'm not a frequent watcher of Nightmare Masterclass but I noticed something odd when comparing this video to one made by Pryocynical, another youtuber who I will admit I am not a follower of, nor do I have any idea what sort of character he has. Additionally I'm new to this whole Petscop thing so I don't know what sort of information exists on the reddit and such. For these reasons I'm uncomfortable making this insinuation without doing more research. The points both Nightmare Masterclass and Pryocynical bring up, in addition to the order in which they are brought up, are SHOCKINGLY SIMILAR, except Nightmare here seems to have gone into more depth with them. The similarities are close enough that I believe Pryo may have plagiarized Nightmare. Maybe both of these creators are just reading information as presented from a mutually shared resource. Again I simply don't know enough about either creator or about the Petscop resources available. I'm simply presenting this thought as-is in case anyone wants to do the work I don't care enough to do myself. To the creator: I apologize any time loss you may incur researching this if I am in the wrong. I truly know nothing of your work or of Pyrocynical's, and I only want to ensure that artistic integrity is protected. It does seem as though you and he posted resources in your descriptions to the reddit and google docs so this is hopefully simply a coincidence. I have already posted a similar comment on the Pryocynical's video covering this to give him and his audience the chance to protect their work if my suspicions are in fact incorrect. After all if I am wrong to suspect foul play here I would hate to have it negatively affect his work. That having been said if I am in the right it seems very unethical for him to steal a script from someone with so many fewer followers to himself. Again this is only if I am in the right here, which I care enough to question but don't really have the personal investment to follow through with myself. I hope that I'm wrong, and that neither creator is negatively affected because I choose to meddle in affairs outside my own.
Hey, this is a quick and maybe irrelevant note. The treadmill number was set to 16 at the beginning, in red. The pace at which Paul picked each petal in the game was EXACTLY identical to the demo pace at which the numbers were dropped down to zero. And in the later videos, he gains access to picking up Care after he sets the number to -1: an odd number, but low enough to access the platform. The connection between the two numeric devices appears to be extremely strong.
Petscop series is up to 12 now. I REALLY ENJOYED THIS SERIES OF VIDEOS YOU MADE. It's a pretty good investigation. Please make up to 12 or something, or wait until 13 or something. But please, do it!!
I'm only halfway into the video so far so I don't know for sure whether or not you know this, but the motions on the treadmill going from 16 to 3, pausing, and then going to zero, line up perfectly with the actions Paul makes when picking the flower pedals. The pause during the number 3 is the exact same length, as are all the other shorter pauses.
It could be that rather than the game knowing exactly how he was going to walk in that corner, he walked in the corner like that because the copy of him did. That would seem to make much more sense. A game gives clues to advance. Perhaps if you don't walk in that particular way in the corner, you don't get the loading screen or what comes next. Obviously I'm speaking from a point of rationality and game design here, and not as it pertains to the story.
Awesome man. looking forward to the next video. P.s. those clocks in the quitters room, i think the first one should be read in reverse, since the room is reversed, not that it makes much of an obvious difference. keep up the great work.
These videos are great; love your insight into some of these aspects. I've been looking at the petscop videos to try and find something no one else found but that proves to be really hard. The only things I found where more just observations I find peculiar. Like the fact that when Paul asked the tool "Who is Tiara" the answer was "Petscop kid very smart"... and that is the first time the word "petscop" is used in the entire game not counting the titlescreen. The only other time is in the pauze menu in the 9th video and that usage refers to the game. The other thing I found weird is how there are a lot of people who think Roneth is a combination of Toneth and Randice. I see Toneth's head but I don't think his body looks like Randice's at all. Just the head... Toneth head Roneth... I dunno. Keep going regardless! There seems to be so much to this series and until more videos come out I'll have well thought out thinkpieces like this to fill the time ^_^
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This investigation series of Petscop is the most indepth version of it I've then others I've seen.
Terrible Meme Thing: The Entire Petscop Investigation Series but everytime Footnote is said, the entirety of the Investigation Series resets
Stuart Pot True, true.
Stuart Pot kill it with fire
Petscop Investigation Series but everytime he pauses the video take a shot (you will die)
Once again, masterful job.
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Thanks!
Nightmare Expo my two favorite nightmare's together at last.
Nightmare Masterclass
20:24 what about the tool changing from red to pink?
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Thank you for saying the censoring is not a cheap tactic. It generates interest - the objects aren't censored to tease anyone. I believe there's an incredibly important plot related reason for the censoring. It something that can't be revealed quite yet, but the viewer has to be aware it is there. And like you said, they aren't censored because they're violent or graphic, they're most likely censored because they have something personal to do with Paul.
Im not even in that part of this video, cool! Thats exactly what I thought first, its obviously some objects personal to Paul, and right now its my biggest interest.
Maybe it isn't Paul himself. Maybe his family. By the shape, it appears to be an upside down pyramid. Perhaps it could be something he saw once or something that someone has, or was passed down to him... As a gift? The red pyramid also looks like a giant piece.
His reaction to it though was like "what the.. fuck.." I'm pretty sure? Would that be because he's startled at the fact that there is something personal? Or what other possibilities could it be? Because he isn't necessarily reacting nearly as much at any other point throughout the series. Idk most of his reactions are "oh" "uhm" "ok" or a combination of those.
red pyramid...
and it's been confirmed that Paul is seen with a red pyramid as a head by other newmakers...
The Pyramid is definitely important.
I believe Paul's skepticism until the point where he saw the first censored item wasn't exactly out of place, like NM says. Take a look at this:
even though I don't believe in the paranormal and stuff, and I'm used to playing horror games, if I found a game like Petscop that have strong indications that it is kind of haunted in some way, I would, just like Paul, hold on to anything I could possibly imagine to justify why things are happening the way they are happening. It would help me keep my cool if I could find a logical reason for everything. And I believe the moment he sees the censored thing that comes out of the gift box is the moment he can literally throw his logic through the window, cause apparently it is something without a proper explanation.
This, or maybe it's a image from poor Tiara Newmaker's "rebirth" session. That would make me react the same way he did too, and would force me to censor that part of the video as well.
okay so about the eyebrows being a recurring theme (and also referring back to the "sentiment vs logic" thing with the Pen puzzle): eyebrows are the part of the face that express the most emotion. That's why people who shave their eyebrows look so odd; they look emotionless, you cant tell how they're feeling. Mouth and eyes also express emotion but to a lesser degree, eyebrows are by far the most expressive part of the face, so without them everything just looks wrong.
just a thought.
There's another moment that synchronizes. The treadmill synchs with the petal pulling if you play the clips side by side.
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@@nikkidefilippo3459 Actually no. Nightmare Masterclass mentions that the even and odd numbers match up between the flower and the treadmill, however he doesn't notice that the numbers are also in sync to the petals being pulled.
A subtle giveaway there is that the dissonance that plays every other number is the same that plays every other petal pulled.
It must be because the creator used the same movement data
My thoughts on the flower is that it is like a game of "she loves me/she loves me not", where the an even number (which had a red tint as though bad) would always end with "loves me not", as you typically start with "loves me". Thus by setting the number to negative one, it's not only taking away the very option to play the game, but it's as though they're saying "Don't be ridiculous, of course nobody loves you" (Actually the opposite is likely true. Thank you Ed Boi). Which may explain why care's description says that you had to lie to catch her, but it may not be a lie forever. The lie possibly being that nobody loves her (Again the opposite). Though all of that is just speculation
Pshh. Duh. My brain really dipped out on that theory halfway. Thanks for pointing that out.
Actually 0 is an even number and is shown in red on the counter and -1 is an odd number which is in pink, so it would make more sense if setting it to -1 means you are lying by telling her there is an extra petal so it switches to "he/she/they love me" when really there's no petals left.
This needs more likes.
I thought everybody thought of this but no one brought it up because it was inherently a fact...is there really any debate here?
Well it wasn't intended to be a debate. And even if it were an inherent fact that would only make it more necessary to point it out as one should get their facts straight before delving into theories.
The symbol on the cake is probably not a "P," but a backwards "9." Remember that Mike was only 7 when he died, and Mike seemed to have some kind of connection to Care, who has some type of connection to the windmill girl (same eyes.) The room is probably belonging to the windmill girl, and she was probably turning 9.
You say the fact that Paul only has 201 pieces on his test save is evidence that he did not make it very far, but the other possibility is that he simply is not going out of his way to collect the pieces on his test save. Note that he does mention that none of the oddities occurred and includes the mirror room. In his original play through Paul has 212 pieces by the time he gets to the mirror room, so he must have skipped at least a few. This leads to the possibility that the "oddities" are tied to the number of pieces collected.
+jefftmbg That's a good point! Thanks.
You forgot to mention a very important thing: Petscop 3 8:30 - Note says "When you find her room, the passage to my right will lead to her." Notice passageway was always there, but it wasn't lit, and, just like in many other places in the game, when Paul went there the camera stayed fixed. Now, when he's "found her" the passage is accessible.
Seems like TOOL is expecting Paul to enter a datetime (a year when asking what year is it, a month when asking what month is it) when it prompts him with the calendar icon. The PS1 had no internal persistent clock, so asking "what year is it" essentially lets you set that time. The clock on the wall in quitters room could also represent total game play time.
The room that he censored was Care with eyebrows, he states in a later upload that him and Care look similar, what if it's his room. I had this idea while watching the video. I'm pretty sure it's true. The other items that are censored have to be something some what personal hence why he is so wierded out by them. This would also explain when he mentions finding his own room and being suprised, this is a bit of a rant but I think I got my point across.
Exactly - that's why he tries to dismiss it as "maybe they put that in _any_ room", implying that the really strange part is that it's in _this_ room. Assuming the censors are identifiable or personal, that makes this _his_ room.
Two notes regarding Pen's description as you raised a really interesting point: Music = Sentiment, Mathematics = Logic. Pen is good with logic but she is incapable of processing music and perhaps by extension sentiment. The description "I don't know what she's doing here." seems to me like a rather disturbing message from someone that the world of Petscop does not follow logical or rational rules (even though it seems to have a cohesive narrative). Pen's logic is useless because of this: so her presence here is hopeless. This ties in with the idea of the "Newmaker Plane" being some sort of purgatory or even a Hell of some kind in which rules like time have no meaning. This further connects things like "I've forgotten what birds look like", which is suggestive of someone trapped for a very long time, perhaps.
You drew a parallel between Pen and Paul both being able to solve the puzzle in which she is "Caught" by logic, even without the "sentiment" of music. This is a connection between the two.
Does this also mean there is an inferrence there that Paul is good with logic, but bad with emotion and sentiment? He is good at solving the puzzles but he seems to express no sadness or concern at the fate of Care when he's picking the daisy petals and she becomes seemingly disfigured, the suffering of the "Purple tool" in the first discussion with it is ignored and he seems to put progressing in the game above any kind of emotional interaction with it. Even the most disturbing occurrences mostly elicit dull surprise or curiosity from him rather than an emotive response.
I think that Paul is acting aloof in large part to show his skepticism that there is anything "wrong" or supernatural about the game (as people have pointed out, a common trope in horror).
there is a theory that the large red censored triangle is a picture of the dog after being hit by the car
HOLD ON. WE SPEAK ABOUT EVEN NUMBERS BEING NEGATIVE! THE ABOVE PLACE IS CALLED EVEN CARE. CARE, AS WE KNOW, IS THE NAME OF THE CHILD. AND ALL THE OBJECTS IN EVEN CARE RELATE TO THOSE BELOW. Perhaps the unfinished aspect of the game is completely false, it's just that Care is currently even, not loved, negative, however since we are the Newmaker, we can bring her positivity and perhaps bring Odd Care or some other place that corresponds with a more positive environment down in the Newmaker Plane
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In the about page on the TH-cam channel it says; "'Rainer' gave this gift to us on Christmas 1997 and 2000. It was the single longest day of our lives. We were all certain he was dead at the time. He had been missing since June 1997 and 2000." And at 26:30 the note was written by Rainer Newmaker. I think that is a huge piece to this story as it connects that the channel and the game have something personal we don't know about.
El Bravo The about section looks completely different now
First of all, I love your videos! Now, a few things I wanted to add:
1. The Color Theory; there is a great theory that the different colors of the Tool represent different entities in the game "possessing" it which accounts for the color and tone change. I personally believe this one, since the different colors say completely different things, and the game associates different characters with different colors (purple for Tiara, yellow for Care, I think red for Mike). This explains the contradictions as well.
2. I always thought that instead of the game "predicting" the movement, we're seeing a time manipulation. We're actually seeing Paul from a few minutes ahead, only we're seeing it now in a time loop. That's also what I thought happened with the windmill - we see the windmill, then a shadow man enter it, then leaves and the windmill eventually disappears (yes, not immediately, but I feel like this time loop is not consistent and definitely has fractures to it) which is exactly what Paul does later on. This makes me think we're seeing a lot of things from the future, and that things may be more sinister than we think. It won't surprise me if at one point we'll be back in the windmill, but this time exit and move toward the camera to spell things out for our past selves. ESPECIALLY if you consider the "about" page on Petscop, where there are strange time stamps "1997 AND 2000"
Notice how the message about the pieces is in a different font as the "You'll never go home"
I feel this is supported by episode 15 where Belle shows Paul how to edit textures.
The demo treadmill mimics the timing of Paul picking the petals off of the flower
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I have only recently found out about the Petscop series and therefore only recently found your channel and your take on an interpretation. I must say that I like your analysis on Petscop the most from what else I've seen on TH-cam so far! When I saw you did more than one part of it and it was longer than 20 minutes I knew it had to be very throrough and I was not disappointed. I find your interpretations very interesting and agree with them, and also you have pointed many things out I would've never noticed myself!
All in all, I HAD to jump to this video the moment I saw you uploaded it! I'm really looking forward to your conclusion, almost as much as I'm looking forward to an update on the Petcop channel itself. You take your time with your videos, cover so many details, and it makes your content very enjoyable. Thanks for the great work!
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Paul suppose to collect 1000 pieces and go to the device look like fireplace in the very first room on newmaker plane.
For the censored gift box, I think he's getting some weird threatening message or picture so he's censored it.
Another things that is weird is how Paul can back up his save file. There isn't any button to back the file up. Only erase file is able.
Right switch in the cage is also in different position as well as "come here" message which should be in the note on Quitter's room. That little girl in Quitter's room might be the last ? Pet in pet menu
I don't know the conditions necessary to allow that, but if you want i could put subtitles on your videos (using the youtube functionality) (in english and french anyway) because i want to share it with my friends but their english isn't so good but i want to be able to share your analysis in a way that doesn't remove the ambiance of your videos.
Magic Gnome I think there's a way on computers you can add subtitles, but I don't know if the uploaded has to enable community subtitles or something
maddiesux it's not always entirely accurate. that's why many people get their videos personally subbed
Below the subscription box, under "more" there is a way to add translations to the video. The most accurate way to have subtitles for your friends is if you actually go through the whole video and do it yourself, or ask someone else to help/do it for you.
Wait you're French ? Moi aussi !
I know, but it tells me that this video isn't compatible with community contribution, and i'm not sure if it's up to the creator or youtube itself
EDIT: After checking my own channel it seems to be up to the creator to allow subtitles to be made for the video, we're gonna have to wait for an answer from him
More info: support.google.com/youtube/answer/6052538
Here’s a quick theory, following the “find one that you like” idea.
There are different “generations” of the game and the one with “find one that you like” is an earlier generation. Because of this, it was made into “find somebody that you like” in later development, for an unknown reason but I predict it has something to do with the idea that was described about granting status. This is why the piano keys are missing and the treadmill has different and unique numbers. It was more incomplete than the “latest” version.
OH FuCK I literally found your channel today and watched these Petscop videos dude I gotta say you're incredible
EDIT: At the end you said that you are aware of the changes to the youtube channel. So think this comment is "obsolete".
You have missed a part. Read the Channel info of Petscop.
"Rainer" gave this gift to us on Christmas 1997 and 2000. It was the single longest day of our lives. We were all certain he was dead at the time. He had been missing since June 1997 and 2000.
We're not as concerned about these things now.
Please enjoy the recordings! We do. :)
Brotcrunsher I was thinking about the channel info and was going to ask if he'd seen it yet, but it seems you beat me to it. :D
Strange that the name is in quotes.
Based Fox Right? You'd think the term "Newmaker" would be since it appears to be a title of sorts, but no. Reiner is. Weird.
In the game Paul sees his doppelganger who seems to be mirroring his movements, even predicting future ones. So could Reiner and Paul be the same person? The game refers to both of them as "the Newmaker". Is Reiner the "shadow monster man"? Also a thing to note: Marvin seems to be the one one of the notes was talking about- he is supposed to have a daughter and a friend who disappeared along with the windmill. Is Reiner that mysterious friend who disappeared? Is it Paul?
HOLY SHIT I FIGURED IT OUT!
So you know how Paul appears to be talking to someone? Someone who apparently played this game at some point and who presumably left the note to help him?
I know why we never see or hear them. That's because... Paul is talking to HIMSELF. He gave himself the game. He is the Newmaker, he's two people- he's Paul and Reiner.
The about has changed slightly.
"For now, there is nothing to do. We are waiting patiently for Paul! When the time comes, we will turn on the light."
So while 4:30 is a reasonable interpretation of the clock, don’t forget that the room is mirrored. The “real” clock would read 7:30.
Wow, man. Your videos are criminally underviewed. I enjoyed your analysis so much!!!
These have aged SO WELL. There's so much going on in petscop that it's been hard for me to wrap my head around it, but these videos help so much. I've watched three other analysis series, and this is the ONLY ONE that makes sense. It helps that youre only analyzing what's there and pointing out details without theorizing on what it could all mean-because the theories become outdated pretty fast in these series. I love the English major approach. Thank you for your hard work!
Definitely the best coverage of Petscop yet. No one else is giving this series the hours it needs to explain.
I'm really glad I started watching your videos. The video by video in depth analysis is allowing me to see things I didn't realize before -- and hadn't realized just watching the other popular theory videos (cough). The fact that he had to look at Pen's description to realize how to catch Care NLM -- and then subsequently, WHY he went through the closing and opening of doors in Amber's room - reading Care's description of "You had to lie to her": i.e. something must be done at the place where you've already lied to a "her" to progress. I wouldn't have connected those dots without you!
Hello, I agree with Another Skeleton the censorship really freaks me out. Actually, all this is freaking me out and quite frankly I get super anxious for not knowing more as I keep watching your series.
I love the music you did for these videos so much I have the ost on Bandcamp, but I was wondering if there’s somewhere I could listen to the songs not included in it, like the one at 3:15. Love all these videos a ton
At 27:46 when you mention the cake, you said there is a letter “p” on it, but because of new Petscop videos it’s been theorized to actually be the number 9 backwards. The reason is because, when we find Lina’s gravestone in video 17, before we find her, the text says that when a girl went missing her father put out birthday girl signs instead of missing girl signs. And then her grave pops up, and according to the dates on the grave, Lina apparently died at the age of 9. And when we enter the “party room” in video 9, it’s all referencing the “birthday girl” that the father was looking for. And of course the party room is located in the back of what we now know as “Lina’s Room” in the child library. So that cake would have a backwards 9 and be for Lina.
You must be having the time of your life with this series, there's so much stuff to take note of it's insane
Guys the avatar kinda looks like a duckling to me? Like with the roundish freatures and yellow triangle being the beak? And the big flipper like feet? IDK...?
why did you say idiot donkey kong at the end
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This video was so great!
This series are the best petscop analysis videos I've seen.
Can't wait for the next one.
Ruby 8Ball I just can't wait for petscop11
I had just made a mental note of this.
It should be mentioned that "Tool" vaguely, by context and appearance, resembles something that one might hit someone with, which makes more sense that such the object is in a couple of kids' rooms.
Granted, it also looks a little like a drinking gourd but it also looks like something akin to a paddle or, alternatively, a guitar (or something).
I love this series! You've really done an excellent job of breaking everything down and pointing out details I missed.
I came to the same conclusion about the censors. The narrator doesn't seem squeamish enough for it to have been something graphic. Plus, our own imaginations are always scarier than any artist can create.
Thank you so much for doing these videos on Petscop, it's really helped put even more things into perspective for me and I very much look forward to seeing your final analysis video!
The footnotes are so eerie when they happen and I love it. The vibe of these videos are amazing and the video overall is so well made
Both of the censored items, the one on the table and the one in the gift box do share a similarity. At the very bottom of the censor box on the table you can see an emanation of red peeking out. The censored item in the gift also has a red, this time flaring out. Whether the gift that was censored is suppose to have censored something alternate than the red flaring out we won't know for a while I'm sure.
I'm surprised you never mentioned the abrupt cut away as soon as tries to touch any of the blocks, just before he does.
Dude i just finished the first two today and had a sneaking suspicion #3 was on route today. Thank you for not leaving me hanging. Great work.
Your conjectured explanation for why certain objects are censored is legitimately brilliant. It perfectly explains why they would be censored at all, Paul's odd reactions to them, while also making the series a hell of a lot more creepy and personal than I thought it was before. I've been frustrated with how easily people dismiss the censored objects as either cheap mystery or completely inscrutable, and yours is the first video I've seen that's actually tried to dig into why they would be censored at all, and what Paul's peculiar reaction says about their significance.
I JUST finished the last part, wonderful content!
Brilliant as usual, spefically the analysis of the censorship as I found it quite confusing at first. I think your theory about personal association is spot-on and connects many of the dots
If I'm being honest, this is the best analysis of an online series I've yet to see. Fantastic job, I now think you are better than night mind, in quality.
P.s.: I have a few suggestions that you could cover: mushroomland, DHMIS, lasagna cat. do them if you want, I won't be pushy.
Woooooooooo! Thank you so much for making my evening!
I was watching part 1 and 2 and I was like "Hm there's no part 3 so I'll just subscribe and wait for the next one" and then like two hours later you upload it
This is a great series! If Paul makes another video, ( people on reddit thinks it's December) please make another video on the series! Thank you.
Why December?
happy62ful because he dropped off Care NLM, and the game said something along the lines of coming back in six months, which would probably be around December.
Hey there Nightmare Masterclass, Petscop has recently released episode 11,12 and 13! I hope you're making another episode to this genius and amazing series of yours. I noticed one thing, and I don't know if it's relevant or not, but maybe someone with your skill can figure it out. Petscop isn't just about the gameplay, it's about the channel too. In the description of episode 5 he wrote about the questions Paul had asked 'the tool', this was in your video. From episode 6 to 10 he didn't have anything in his description, but in episode 11 he did...
"Everything we wish to say is below:
The purpose of this TH-cam channel is to preserve and display the recordings within the video game "Petscop" while keeping some of their content private.
They were first given to us as a Christmas gift, many years ago. The game had an interesting journey, before and after that day.
Paul created some additional recordings in 2017 as a way to show Petscop gameplay to his friend. He created this account in order to upload those additional recordings in video format. He later passed ownership of the channel to us, but continued to record himself at our strong suggestion. Though he had issues with the arrangement, these have finally been settled.
Please enjoy the recordings in Petscop! We do. :)"
Here again there's a third party, just like the ones who censored a few things.
This is also the description in episode 12 and 13. If this isn't part of the mystery, I don't know what is. Please look into this.
On a side note, his banner is completely black, but maybe if we light it up it's hiding something? Maybe his profile picture is hiding something? are the upload dates and the lengths of the videos of importance? Maybe it's a number code? But that's all just guesswork.
There is something very interesting and significant that you didn't touch on in this video. Maybe you were going to in the fourth installment, but either way.
The timing of Paul picking the flower petals in Petscop 2, is exactly the same as the timing of the demo avatar running on the tredmill in Petscop 9. Check it out: th-cam.com/video/Rc7hxKGVEWM/w-d-xo.html
Who tf was the one guy who disliked this you put in so much time and effort into this series. And even though it isn't successful you continue it anyways
Something not many others are willing to do
You are my role model, I love you
I've rewatched this series so many times God I love these videos
That was one of the best analysis I've ever seen about Petscope. Your voice so clear that I could understand all what you said easily in this video and the previous ones (English is not my mother language) All my respects to you for the incredible research and the amount of time you invested for giving us a clear point of view of all the little hints in original Petscope videos.
I'll be waiting for part 4!! Awesome video and awesome investigation!
Regards
Still the best videos I've seen covering this. Blows GT right out of the water. Keep it up man!
Very excited for a the conclusion. You and Night Mind are my favorite youtubers. I am amazed at the work that goes into these videos.
does the tool not look like a Pikmin?
Creeperbomb lol yeah
Creeperbomb looks like a teletubby aswell
Dude i just found your channel today and after watching your Petscop series I gotta say you deserve way more subscribers, you explained the whole situation more clearly than anybody else has and you shed some unique light on it, I subscribed and I can't wait to get more content from you.
I just want to say that from watching these videos off of Petscop i am subscribing to your channel, and i must say these three videos were very well made and have been made from good effort.
I've been waiting for this! Thank you for being so in-depth and focused
I think you've really mastered your commentary style with these Petscop videos, found the channel last night (subbed) and I binged a lot of your videos, they're all great but this series is so far the best quality of production and narration and you've by far provided the most thorough and in depth analysis of Petscop, and I can't wait for part 4.
Never have I been so excited for a video part in a long time.
nice analysis dude, much better than other ARG and web series focused channels that just summarize what happened without really analyzing what it means
Another excellent video dude, The editing and the clear way you presented everything is amazing- keep it up. You might be a bit deep in the 4th video now but I think it might be interesting to see your opinion on how all the characters relate to each other and what kind of narrative Petscop is presenting outside the game world so far. I think it would be cool of you to go through some of the characters and they're implied stories, for example Marvin being someone who is possibly trapped in the game as well as the mysterious Rainer who is only mentioned twice, in game and in the new TH-cam "about" section but seems to play a bigger part than is told. Again thank you for making these I love listening to these videos when I work over and over and really gives a clean way of finding out about Petscop for those who are new. I'm looking forward to what your next video series will be, I love your other videos too, but these long form analysis videos are some of the best and I cant' wait to see what you will do next.
The second-best thing to Petscop 11 right now. Thanks!
I love how you pick small and subtle details that are so important to the full understanding of the game.
Also I have a really crazy theory, I mean, the events passed 16 years ago, and maybe considering the month it ocurred and the time it took the procedure of putting the culprits in jail, they may be going out of jail this year if they didn't have yet.
So maybe this webserie is trying to raise awareness and make people talk about it again, so these people who killed Care could remember what they did...
I mean, I'm just basing this on the dates these are ocurring. But again, just a crazy theory.
Again I love your videos and I will be waiting the next one
I think one thing that you miss about the daisy is a reference to "they love me, they love me not." Which also corresponds to: nobody loves me
I love your analysis on this ARG!!!! By far the best one out there!
I really love the formula you've presented this in.
I believe the pet Pen's description is linked to the Candace Newmaker theory. This game is supposed to portray you as a selfish person which treats adopted children as gifts that can be returned, just like Jeane Newmaker did. The description of that pet fuels the theory - it tells you about her disability, and then says "I don't know what she's doing here". "Here" is most likely meant to be Paul's inventory. She's seen as useless, defective and is supposed to be returned. All children and pets in the game are suppposed to symbolize Candace, and you are Jeane. You don't try to help them by showing love and patience, you go with the quick solution, like when you give away Care. It goes beyond name parallels and references.
One thing to note: The way the avatar pauses on 3 sort of correlates with how Paul left the shed above Care NLM, with only 3 petals remaining on the daisy, before coming back to pick the last petals off. That was one of the other ways Even Care is similar to Newmaker Plane, with the treadmill being linked to the daisy.
'Good Night" at the end!! How did you knew i was watching it at night??!! xD JK...Awesome video mate...waiting for the next one eagerly.
I appreciate how much time you put into these, seems like you care more about genuine discussion rather than attracting views
The game is slowing changing degrade the pets or kids into objects that you can have as things and not beings throughout the game. Paul has obviously treated the game with little feeling, like what the game evolves into in the end, with no consideration or second look at actions or pets.
This brings up the question to whether the game is evolving based off of Paul's rather rushed and careless actions.
For example, the starts off saying 'somebody', and later says 'one'. Paul didn't see the car cross the road the first time so that he could rush to the next part, but later went back to the same spot and investigated. Or even Paul re-catching Care, while the game tells you to just give her back.
The game starts off thinking off the pets as beings, while Paul is careless. In later episodes, the game thinks of pets as 'things', while Paul checks over his actions more considerately.
32:11 could be another sign of conditioning to progress in the game. A lot of (especially longer) strategy/puzzle/adventure games rely on exhausting the player or relying on other previous adventure games on exhausting the player into a mindset of “if I can do I will do it because it’s progress”
incredible job, i feel just as spooked watching these as petscop itself. the gift is tool, don't worry you're not somebody
Not sure if already mentioned but Marvin being confused, The Tool saying "you'll never go home", the conversation Paul has about the game changing since 2004, What if its possible to set the console date to an earlier year and seeing if that yeilds new events? Either way I'm loving this Series and Petscop as a whole. Very well done and Entertaining videos
Me: Wow, I'd sure like a nice, long TH-cam video to watch while I chill at the end of the day.
Nightmare Masterclass: [DELIVERS]
Haven't even watched it yet, but thank you! :3
One interesting element to further the idea that the game anticipates your movements : in PetScop 6, right before the windmill starts going backwards, the camera captures a shadow person (which we could assume, at first, to be Marvin too) going behind the windmill, and exiting after the rotation changed, in the exact manner that shadow monster Paul enters the windmill to "find Care", collects the "gifts", and exits the windmill to find it's started rotating counter clockwise. I believe that it's a projection of future Paul, as opposed to the shadow of Marvin, which appears 1 hour and 24 minutes later, just like we see a projection of a close-future Paul in Care's room.
Furthermore, the game seems to start by copying Paul's movement, for example, when he's in the Quitter's Room. It's possible that PetScop taught itself the movements and thought processes of Paul.
Finally, a more credible theory would be that Paul is not playing, and that this doesn't happen after the previous PetScop episode, but, rather, before/during the first PetScop episodes. It could be that someone else is playing the game and finding Care in the windmill, while Paul has let the game idling and recording. If Paul is not talking in a segment of footage, we have no reason to assume that this segment is in linear progression with Paul's perspective through his play-through. We essentially lose our only time anchor.
Also, the general idea behind the tinting of even numbers follows the rule of "Love me/Love me not". When you've removed every petal, you land on Love Me Not, which should explain the distraught state of Care NLM. By moving the treadmill to -1, you add a petal, landing on Love Me, and Care NLM feels better. But you lied to her.
Notification squad. Also, thank you for part 3!
If you look closely at the bottom of the first censor it seems like it is covering a red object that is laying on the table. Later the second censor is some form of red animated pyramid, I think it is more likely that Paul was surprised to see the same item in two different places and to see it animated than that this strange red shape somehow identifies him. So far the model cars show up at one point and are animated but nothing else crosse over from the rooms, except the censors.
I like your analysis on the censored stuff. It's intriguing.
I really love this video. Please more of this kind of content! I watched game theory and other channels but this one's really neat too.
Reminder:
"Rainer" gave this gift to us on Christmas 1997 and 2000. It was the single longest day of our lives. We were all certain he was dead at the time. He had been missing since June 1997 and 2000.
We're not as concerned about these things now.
Please enjoy the recordings! We do. :)
This is the description of the Petscop TH-cam channel, and it may help you out mate, great series dude!
not only do the daisy and treadmill correlate approximately, but Paul actually triggers each petal pick and treadmill run at exactly the same time, with the pause on the treadmill being Paul leaving the daisy room and coming back later.
I noticed that the pattern on the carpet in the yellow room at 10:50 is printed with a stretch of road, not a gift box
i was going to say the same!
Worth the wait. Great work as always!
I'm not a frequent watcher of Nightmare Masterclass but I noticed something odd when comparing this video to one made by Pryocynical, another youtuber who I will admit I am not a follower of, nor do I have any idea what sort of character he has. Additionally I'm new to this whole Petscop thing so I don't know what sort of information exists on the reddit and such. For these reasons I'm uncomfortable making this insinuation without doing more research. The points both Nightmare Masterclass and Pryocynical bring up, in addition to the order in which they are brought up, are SHOCKINGLY SIMILAR, except Nightmare here seems to have gone into more depth with them. The similarities are close enough that I believe Pryo may have plagiarized Nightmare.
Maybe both of these creators are just reading information as presented from a mutually shared resource. Again I simply don't know enough about either creator or about the Petscop resources available. I'm simply presenting this thought as-is in case anyone wants to do the work I don't care enough to do myself.
To the creator: I apologize any time loss you may incur researching this if I am in the wrong. I truly know nothing of your work or of Pyrocynical's, and I only want to ensure that artistic integrity is protected. It does seem as though you and he posted resources in your descriptions to the reddit and google docs so this is hopefully simply a coincidence.
I have already posted a similar comment on the Pryocynical's video covering this to give him and his audience the chance to protect their work if my suspicions are in fact incorrect. After all if I am wrong to suspect foul play here I would hate to have it negatively affect his work. That having been said if I am in the right it seems very unethical for him to steal a script from someone with so many fewer followers to himself. Again this is only if I am in the right here, which I care enough to question but don't really have the personal investment to follow through with myself. I hope that I'm wrong, and that neither creator is negatively affected because I choose to meddle in affairs outside my own.
I’m late but I noticed this as well.
Hey, this is a quick and maybe irrelevant note. The treadmill number was set to 16 at the beginning, in red. The pace at which Paul picked each petal in the game was EXACTLY identical to the demo pace at which the numbers were dropped down to zero. And in the later videos, he gains access to picking up Care after he sets the number to -1: an odd number, but low enough to access the platform. The connection between the two numeric devices appears to be extremely strong.
Petscop series is up to 12 now. I REALLY ENJOYED THIS SERIES OF VIDEOS YOU MADE. It's a pretty good investigation. Please make up to 12 or something, or wait until 13 or something. But please, do it!!
I'm only halfway into the video so far so I don't know for sure whether or not you know this, but the motions on the treadmill going from 16 to 3, pausing, and then going to zero, line up perfectly with the actions Paul makes when picking the flower pedals. The pause during the number 3 is the exact same length, as are all the other shorter pauses.
It could be that rather than the game knowing exactly how he was going to walk in that corner, he walked in the corner like that because the copy of him did. That would seem to make much more sense. A game gives clues to advance. Perhaps if you don't walk in that particular way in the corner, you don't get the loading screen or what comes next.
Obviously I'm speaking from a point of rationality and game design here, and not as it pertains to the story.
About the flower, the demo and Paul both pause with the number 3 left on it, for the same amount of time
Awesome man. looking forward to the next video.
P.s. those clocks in the quitters room, i think the first one should be read in reverse, since the room is reversed, not that it makes much of an obvious difference.
keep up the great work.
Been waiting or your thoughts about care and the ending (For now) for a long time, Glad I wasn't disappointed
These videos are great; love your insight into some of these aspects. I've been looking at the petscop videos to try and find something no one else found but that proves to be really hard.
The only things I found where more just observations I find peculiar. Like the fact that when Paul asked the tool "Who is Tiara" the answer was "Petscop kid very smart"... and that is the first time the word "petscop" is used in the entire game not counting the titlescreen. The only other time is in the pauze menu in the 9th video and that usage refers to the game.
The other thing I found weird is how there are a lot of people who think Roneth is a combination of Toneth and Randice. I see Toneth's head but I don't think his body looks like Randice's at all. Just the head... Toneth head Roneth... I dunno.
Keep going regardless! There seems to be so much to this series and until more videos come out I'll have well thought out thinkpieces like this to fill the time ^_^