A click of the left analog stick will enable your ‘bullet time,’ which slows the whole thing down and allows for the type of brutal, balletic precision Chow Yun Fat would be jealous of. My Friend Pedro wears its intentions firmly on its banana peel from the very start you take on levels where you’re tasked with annihilating all the enemies in side-scrolling environment by blasting away while rolling, jumping, flipping, swinging, and even skateboarding. That said, gameplay effectively works as if you broke all Max Payne’s limbs and threw him and a banana down a corridor. game - they just shut up and let the people play. There’s a reason why there’s never any story in a Super Mario Bros. Much like trying to follow the completely pointless narrative in a game like Trials Rising, if a game splits up its action into tight, isolated moments of madness for a few minutes at a time, then it’s just not worth it. Thankfully, My Friend Pedro‘s gameplay is perfectly suited to bite-sized levels of increasing difficulty, and the story is totally irrelevant. You try explaining what’s going on here, because I give up. Maybe they hate sentient bananas who cares?
Pedro is pretty unconcerned with giving players reasons to slow-mo bullet-slice their way through hundreds of goons, so I was relatively unconcerned with the reasons why everyone wanted to kill the protagonist. The plot is so quickly overshadowed by the cacophonous carnage on screen that it became inconsequential to the point where I’ve already forgotten, and have no idea what was going on. I’d have liked to tick the obligatory box of explaining to you what the story is for My Friend Pedro, but it’s told through only a couple of lines of text before some (not all) levels, where it needs to be deciphered from Pedro’s rambling musings. Why does this man have a talking banana as a friend? Is the banana real, or a figment of his imagination? How can he get his limbs like that? Am I supposed to be following what’s going on here? Does any of this matter if I’m having a laugh? It’s safe to say that the game probably doesn’t care for those, or any other questions - don’t ask, just enjoy.
My Friend Pedro raises a good number of questions.
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