Review: My Friend Pedro (Steam)

My Friend Pedro is a violent ballet about friendship, imagination, and one man’s struggle to obliterate anyone in his path at the behest of a sentient banana.

Pros:

• Decent graphics.
• 3646mb download size.
• Steam achievements.
• Controller support.
• 3 difficulties-normal, hard and bananas.
• Blood/gore-on/off.
• Graphics options-resolution, fullscreen and quality preset.
• Tutorial as you play.
• Can rebind controller and keyboard.
• Shooter gameplay.
• Level select.
• Sublime grimy soundtrack.
• Combo counter.
• Max Payne levels of slowdown shooting action.
• End of a level breakdown showing the score, time, kills death and final overall rank.
• Takes your best moment in a level and creates a gif that you can download or share to Twitter.
• Looks and plays like an action film.
• Puzzle elements
• Visceral action, you feel every shot every hit.
• Actions-duel wields, split shots (shoot two guys at once) flips, wall jumps, cover, dodge bullets and slow time.
• Bite-sized levels.
• Epic sequences and cutscenes.
• Big boss battles.
• Great humor throughout.
• Constant checkpoints.
• Pick up ammo and health in the game.
• Very easy to sit and binge.
• Pop-ups like Wall kill or knife kill.
• Fun to play.
• Satisfying.
• Amazing moments like kicking a knife I to someone’s head or kicking gasoline at a guy then shooting it to explode.

Cons:

• Minimal graphics options.
• No voice work.
• Kicking objects is awkward as you have to use the right stick to aim and a button to kick.
• Easy to accidentally trigger a slowdown.
• Difficult.
• Saved gif always feels 50/50 if it actually caught your best moment.
• Few clunky animations.
• Sharp action direction change especially showcased when going from act 1 to act 2. Act 1 is all action and all shooting whereas act 2 has more puzzles and lever shooting than action.
• The slowdown in places and happened every time I got an achievement.
• Sometimes the way forward isn’t clear.
• Box shards can block a clearly accessible shaft.