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.
