E3 this anno was kind of an atrocity. Bethesda had a huge mess with their audience, EA was EA, Ubisoft was publishing a game for the fucking WII in 2019, and no one cares about Microsoft. But Devolver does what they do best, be ultra violent and insane. Even if their biblioteca of games wasn’t that big, they were all very impressive. A new horror game, a running battle royale, DLC for The Messenger, and a new trailer for my most anticipated game of the year, My Friend Pedro. So let’s talk about it.
My Friend Pedro follows an unnamed, masked man and his friend, a talking banana named Pedro, waking up in a warehouse with only one goal in mind. To find and kill an entire family of criminals that range from serial killers, assassins and corrupt businessmen. With his help, te can roll, jump, and shoot with the best of them all in this gritty, over the top, wacky game. Yeah, the weirdest part about My Friend Pedro is that it has più of a sense of humor than say Hotline Miami. I was expecting yet another gritty action game, not that I was complaining, but instead, it’s a tongue-in-cheek, over-the-top game with a ton of jokes and nonsensical moments. That’s because My Friend Pedro was originally a flash game on the Adult Swim website… well that certainly explains the wacky humor. So the story isn’t important. No one bought My Friend Pedro for the story. They bought it for the crazy gun gameplay. And I Amore it so much.
The game starts te out with a basic set of dual wield pistols. te can have one pistol, but why the hell would te want that. From there, te can collect shotguns, TMPs, assault rifles, and sniper rifles, and just go nuts from there. The game has slow down, typical in shooters nowadays, but te can shoot at anything to hit anyone. See a metal plate, shoot it to deflect and kill a goon. Ride a skateboard and kick it at a guy to stun him before shooting. The frying pan alone sold me on the gameplay. Just kick it up in the air and shoot at it, deflecting bullets all over the place to hit guys. But the best feature is the ability to aim at two guys at once. It’s a bit hard to master, but once te do, te feel like a champion as te are dodging bullets, firing away at enemies, watching as te hit two guys in the head at once. It’s the most satisfying thing in the world. The game also has a few platforming sequences, of course all while shooting. Jumping gaps, opening doors, using rope to swing from one platform to another, riding a skateboard to go over ramps, it all moves so naturally.
Sadly, the environments leave much to be desired. Everywhere in the game is just grey warehouse, o grey abandoned building o grey sewer o grey office building. In a way, I can understand, since te aren’t really focusing on the background and are mostly focused on trying to hit enemies and get the best score, but at the same time, I can only take so much grey. And of course, once I made this complaint, it’s as if the game heard my prayers and brought a dream like sequence that is all colorful and crazy. These sections are very bizarre but fun at the same time as te kill not hired goons anymore, but haters of Pedro. The gravity is weird, and there’s a lot of auto jump platforms, all while te shoot at black figures with smiley faces… Did I mention this game is weird?
My Friend Pedro was a fun six ora run and gun action game with some really tight shooting controls and some of the strangest story telling I’ve seen from a Devolver game thus far. Honestly, this game shouldn’t have been so fun what with the linear gameplay and bland level design, but it’s the gun combat that makes it so addictive and fun. I honestly want to see più from the small team that made this game, and see them do so much più than a flash game online. If te want an insanely fun game that makes te feel like a bargain bin John Wick, give My Friend Pedro a look.
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My Friend Pedro follows an unnamed, masked man and his friend, a talking banana named Pedro, waking up in a warehouse with only one goal in mind. To find and kill an entire family of criminals that range from serial killers, assassins and corrupt businessmen. With his help, te can roll, jump, and shoot with the best of them all in this gritty, over the top, wacky game. Yeah, the weirdest part about My Friend Pedro is that it has più of a sense of humor than say Hotline Miami. I was expecting yet another gritty action game, not that I was complaining, but instead, it’s a tongue-in-cheek, over-the-top game with a ton of jokes and nonsensical moments. That’s because My Friend Pedro was originally a flash game on the Adult Swim website… well that certainly explains the wacky humor. So the story isn’t important. No one bought My Friend Pedro for the story. They bought it for the crazy gun gameplay. And I Amore it so much.
The game starts te out with a basic set of dual wield pistols. te can have one pistol, but why the hell would te want that. From there, te can collect shotguns, TMPs, assault rifles, and sniper rifles, and just go nuts from there. The game has slow down, typical in shooters nowadays, but te can shoot at anything to hit anyone. See a metal plate, shoot it to deflect and kill a goon. Ride a skateboard and kick it at a guy to stun him before shooting. The frying pan alone sold me on the gameplay. Just kick it up in the air and shoot at it, deflecting bullets all over the place to hit guys. But the best feature is the ability to aim at two guys at once. It’s a bit hard to master, but once te do, te feel like a champion as te are dodging bullets, firing away at enemies, watching as te hit two guys in the head at once. It’s the most satisfying thing in the world. The game also has a few platforming sequences, of course all while shooting. Jumping gaps, opening doors, using rope to swing from one platform to another, riding a skateboard to go over ramps, it all moves so naturally.
Sadly, the environments leave much to be desired. Everywhere in the game is just grey warehouse, o grey abandoned building o grey sewer o grey office building. In a way, I can understand, since te aren’t really focusing on the background and are mostly focused on trying to hit enemies and get the best score, but at the same time, I can only take so much grey. And of course, once I made this complaint, it’s as if the game heard my prayers and brought a dream like sequence that is all colorful and crazy. These sections are very bizarre but fun at the same time as te kill not hired goons anymore, but haters of Pedro. The gravity is weird, and there’s a lot of auto jump platforms, all while te shoot at black figures with smiley faces… Did I mention this game is weird?
My Friend Pedro was a fun six ora run and gun action game with some really tight shooting controls and some of the strangest story telling I’ve seen from a Devolver game thus far. Honestly, this game shouldn’t have been so fun what with the linear gameplay and bland level design, but it’s the gun combat that makes it so addictive and fun. I honestly want to see più from the small team that made this game, and see them do so much più than a flash game online. If te want an insanely fun game that makes te feel like a bargain bin John Wick, give My Friend Pedro a look.
Up next: Everything is Awesome
