My Friend Pedro takes all the scenes out your favourite dumb action movie and puts it into a video game. You're shooting endless amounts of dudes while jumping, flipping, swinging on ropes, diving through windows, dual weiled so hit multiple targets at once, riding on skateboards, richoceting bullets, kicking objects into faces, falling incredible distances, riding a motorcycle. They introduce all of these mechanics pretty slowly so you have time to learn them and it's all really fun. You're given a pretty generous slow motion meter which makes performing these feats very doable while also getting to see it in such detail. The normal level of aim assist also helps with this without beign too strong that it makes the game feel like it's playing itself. The levels are designed well enough that keeping your kill combo going to get S ranks is fun and satisfying. There are a few levels that try to change up the formula but most of these drag a bit. I couldn't tell you much about what was happening in the story but it's probably not important. Very fun game.

Divertido em alguns pontos, irritante em outros.

Tem seus momentos satisfatórios, mas sinto que visualmente ele é pouco inspirado. Não gostei da história, sei que o foco dela é ser non-sense e pouco elaborada, mas mesmo assim ela conseguiu me desagradar, achei grandes parte das piadas chatas.

Agora que tirei o pouco relevante da frente, a gameplay tem seus bons aspectos. Gostei de todas as armas, todas elas tem utilidade e brilham em seus respectivos momentos. Gosto bastante dos ítens de oportunidade no cenário, principalmente a gasolina e a frigideira, são bem divertidos de usar. Sinto que o plataforming do jogo não é muito preciso, me vi errando pulos que senti que deveria ter acertado, pular nas paredes é inconsistente e as vezes irritante por causa disso, aquelas caixas destrutiveis no cenário também viviam me atrapalhando e quebrando minhas sequências de combo. Achei a velocidade do protagonista muito lenta, qualquer coisa envolvendo "timing-perfeito" é prejudicada por causa disso, na verdade, o jogo todo é prejudicado. O pacing dos combates seriam ainda melhores e os pulos menos chatos caso o boneco fosse mais rápido, rejogar ele com algum modificador de aumento de velocidade deve ser uma experiência razoavelmente mais divertida e visceral.

Um comentário rápido, nada sútil, sobre My Friend Pedro. Não me arrependo de ter jogado, mas sinto que o jogo poderia ter sido mais, gosto muito da ideia de um Max Payne side-scroller, mas sinto que esse jogo não "chegou lá" ainda sabe? espero que ele tenha uma sequência aprimorada.

A bananas game, and one I had very little interest in due to its seeming dudebro humour and funky physics, but actually giving it a shot allowed it to reveal unexpectedly enjoyable depths in its gimmicky seeming gameplay. Humour’s still shit.

Well, okay, I laughed a few times, and I've played games with worse writing, but it really is there to just give some context to what you are doing, and nothing more.

But what you're doing is a surprisingly fun gun ballet through well constructed levels where each one introduces something new for you to take into account, be it a new weapon, a new enemy, a new environmental detail, or a new twist on an old one. There aren't many weapons and nothing out of the ordinary, but they all feel good to use and offer some interesting approaches coupled with the game's weird character physics and unique movement.

It wasn't long until the start of every level filled me with excitement, both to see what the game had come up with now and to just enjoy its movement and shooting down the artistically adequate corridors (that I did enjoy in some way).

I'm not sure if I'd include it in my favourites list, but the fact that I'm even considering that is such a leap from not even wanting to try it out and doing it only because it was leaving PSN and pushed some button in me. I'm glad I did as I enjoyed the hell out of it, even the somewhat lacklustre finale. I never expected it to blow me away, and it doesn't the way a great game would, but for what it is - fuck yeah, I'd be up for now.