My Friend Pedro is a side-scrolling action game in which you kick skateboards at gangster’s heads under the guidance of a talking banana. Would you like a longer introduction, or shall we crack on?
Yeah, that’s what I thought.
My Friend Pedro reviewDeveloper: DeadToast EntertainmentPublisher: DevolverPlatform played: SwitchAvailability: Out now on PC and Switch
Your nameless protagonist (Pedro is the name of the banana, just in case “the talking banana” wasn’t specific enough) awakes rather inconveniently in the basement of a mafia hideout. He has no memory of how he got there, and his only companion is a floating piece of fruit that strongly encourages him to kill everyone, which I suppose is as good a motivation as any.
A bunch of touchstones are evident in My Friend Pedro’s design, from the psychotropic storytelling of Hotline Miami, to the bullet-time gunplay of Max Payne. But it’s easiest to think of it as Tony Hawk’s Pro Shooter, where killing your enemies is of secondary importance to killing them in cool ways, and it’s always worth the risk of smearing the ground with your own blood to pull off that slightly more incredible stunt.