A short but slick action shooter that feels like a toned down version of Hotline Miami in many ways. My Friend Pedro does a lot of cooooool things with it, the gameplay is easy to pickup, difficult to master but fairly addicting, the music is thumping, and it's all in a package that's around 3-5 hours (Beat it in around 3 but I could see it being a little longer on higher difficulty settings).
The look of the game is kinda interesting at first, nothing too crazy and over the top visually though and it does all feel kinda samesy and repetitive from that perspective as you progress through the various levels. The levels and look never change up all that much, enemies pretty much look the same, areas kinda all feel the same as well, so any interesting look does quickly fade into the background as you progress.
The gameplay is fun though. You're just looking to blast your way through these areas and build up your chain of cool shit (not sure what it's actually called but the chain combos continue to increase the more you're flowing through the various areas and as you chain together your kills).
The game does offer a bit of variety in the ways you can go about killing people, so you don't have to just bulletstorm your way through it all, but it's mostly going to be tied to that aspect either way. Whether that's ricocheting your shots off of things in order to hit guys, or going up or down ropes while shooting and taking guys out. You'll even at times be able to throw items up into the air and use it to your advantage, such as throwing a frying pan into the air and shooting it to have your bullets ricochet off of it and at enemies. You can kick people to death though, you can blow them up of course, you can hit them with barrels so there is minor things you can do to change it up slightly, though obviously the game's focus is on shooting things.
You'll be given a variety of weapons, starting with unlimited ammo handguns but you'll get the obvious things like SMGs, shotguns, even a sniper rifle and assault rifle. The guns are pretty by the book and you'll need to find ammo for them to consistently use them so you'll have to swap in between things as you go from area to area.
Swapping out isn't too bad, a simple press of the d pad left or right will change these up. The only issue is that you will have to scroll passed some of these if you're trying to get to a specific weapon. This on its own isn't a hard/bad thing, but when the game focuses a lot on frenetic, quick action and trying to rack up a massive action chain, slowing down to focus on the exact weapon you're trying to swap to does stick out a lot more.
As you progress too, the game does implement a few platform aspects to the game, simple puzzles you'll have to do in order to get to the next room. These are relatively easy but these actions are definitely not the games strong suit. They just feel a bit off and not as tight as I'd like.
Overall though, for a game this short, it's hard to find massive faults. If you like stylish arcadey action games, My Friend Pedro is a solid single playthrough experience.
The look of the game is kinda interesting at first, nothing too crazy and over the top visually though and it does all feel kinda samesy and repetitive from that perspective as you progress through the various levels. The levels and look never change up all that much, enemies pretty much look the same, areas kinda all feel the same as well, so any interesting look does quickly fade into the background as you progress.
The gameplay is fun though. You're just looking to blast your way through these areas and build up your chain of cool shit (not sure what it's actually called but the chain combos continue to increase the more you're flowing through the various areas and as you chain together your kills).
The game does offer a bit of variety in the ways you can go about killing people, so you don't have to just bulletstorm your way through it all, but it's mostly going to be tied to that aspect either way. Whether that's ricocheting your shots off of things in order to hit guys, or going up or down ropes while shooting and taking guys out. You'll even at times be able to throw items up into the air and use it to your advantage, such as throwing a frying pan into the air and shooting it to have your bullets ricochet off of it and at enemies. You can kick people to death though, you can blow them up of course, you can hit them with barrels so there is minor things you can do to change it up slightly, though obviously the game's focus is on shooting things.
You'll be given a variety of weapons, starting with unlimited ammo handguns but you'll get the obvious things like SMGs, shotguns, even a sniper rifle and assault rifle. The guns are pretty by the book and you'll need to find ammo for them to consistently use them so you'll have to swap in between things as you go from area to area.
Swapping out isn't too bad, a simple press of the d pad left or right will change these up. The only issue is that you will have to scroll passed some of these if you're trying to get to a specific weapon. This on its own isn't a hard/bad thing, but when the game focuses a lot on frenetic, quick action and trying to rack up a massive action chain, slowing down to focus on the exact weapon you're trying to swap to does stick out a lot more.
As you progress too, the game does implement a few platform aspects to the game, simple puzzles you'll have to do in order to get to the next room. These are relatively easy but these actions are definitely not the games strong suit. They just feel a bit off and not as tight as I'd like.
Overall though, for a game this short, it's hard to find massive faults. If you like stylish arcadey action games, My Friend Pedro is a solid single playthrough experience.