My friend pedro gameplay full#

However, the story itself isn’t the main focus here with the gameplay boldly standing out. Along the way, Pedro will give you many gameplay tips while also giving some funny dialogue without interrupting the flow of the gameplay. But it seems that you have nothing to fear as you are met with a friendly banana by the name of Pedro who helps guide your way through the hordes of enemies awaiting you along your journey.

The game follows a mysterious unnamed main character who wakes up in a butcher’s shop with a heavy case of amnesia. So after a year of being announced, the game has finally made its way on Nintendo Switch. This was looking to be quite different from the studios previous games with it heavily focusing on jam packed action and your very own creativity. If you’re like me and have less patience for a game that feels unintuitive for the first 20 levels out of 40, the final product might not click so easily.When Devolver Digital and DeadToast first showed off My Friend Pedro at E3 last year, I was extremely excited. If you’re a patient player who likes killstreaks, points, and stylish gameplay, you might like this a lot. My Friend Pedro seems like the kind of game that either clicks with you or it doesn’t. There isn’t a ton of story before the end of the game, and all you really need to know is, “an imaginary banana convinces you to kill stylishly.” To offset the repetition is a multiplier-driven scoring system that rewards creative play, but I didn’t feel overly compelled to engage with it beyond, “I killed 9 enemies! Cool!” As for the story, which has its moments, it probably won’t be enough to carry you through the game either. There’s a lot of the game that can be solved with “turn on slow motion, shoot dudes, and use your invincible spinning move.” The game does try to mix it up using stages that are about solving more traditional puzzles, like lasers you have to jump through using platforming rather than guns, but these kinds of levels, which especially show up in the back half of the game, are hit-or-miss.

After the game starts to feel better to play, that’s when My Friend Pedro starts to get a little more repetitive. The controls taking half of the several-hour game to feel good is not the only issue I have. The guns feel pretty good too-a lot like what I imagine Hotline Miami would feel like as a sidescroller. A great example is when you bounce bullets off a frying pan in the air to kill enemies in all directions. I especially like using the environment to kill enemies. While it’s not exactly a puzzle game, the best encounters in the game feel like you’re completing a puzzle. It (eventually) felt good to make a plan, run into the room, and carefully execute each acrobatic massacre. Once I got used to the controls, I had significantly more fun with the gameplay. Nothing felt right to me, and as a result, the first half consisted of me running into a room, slowing down time, spamming my invincibility spin, shooting dudes, and moving on to the next area. While it’s hard to picture what I’m talking about from just button inputs alone, the controls felt hard to work with for, I’d say, the first half of the game. Shooting guns happens with ZR, clicking in the left analog stick controls slow motion, L controls a spinning move where you’re temporarily invincible, ZL controls aim and/or secondary fire depending on the gun, and the kick is mapped to X.

My initial answer was a solid “no.” Before I got good, the controls felt very cumbersome. Trailers showing off the game make it look beautiful, but there was a question nagging me: Would it actually feel good to play?

My friend pedro gameplay full#

It’s a sidescroller where you, with a full set of guns, kill your enemies using acrobatics, slow motion, and the environment around you. My Friend Pedro, on paper, is super cool.