Sometimes a really ridiculous idea works out perfectly. My Friend Pedro is a run and gun side scrolling shooter were the main character is taking directions from a sentient floating bandanna. Sounds really dumb and they could’ve literally just had a help icon come up and tell you what to do, but they chose a banana for some reason.

Besides that ridiculousness, this game is fantastic. There is a wide variety or weapons, you can ride on skateboards and throw them at your enemies, there’s melee, slow motion, toss a frying pan and ricochet the bullets around.

SPOILER

The plot is pretty interesting. You’re an unnamed protagonist whose family is involved in criminal activity, but you can’t bring yourself to stop them, so you knock yourself out, erasing your memory and Pedro directs you to kill them all. When this is revealed, you then have to fight Pedro himself and after you kill him its revealed that you are Pedro and the banana was just a figment of your imagination.

Weird, but different and a hell of a lot of fun. I would totally recommend My Friend Pedro to everyone. I give it a 10/10. It has everything you’d want in a game, I had nothing to complain about and most importantly it had replay value.

Simptastic Joe