Slowly putting cursors over both foes and making sure youвЂ™re dodging their bullets before you fire sounds like a cool action mechanic, but often feels like busywork that drains these moments of their spectacle.ДЄ goofy sense of humor pervades the violent onslaught, with a score system that applauds you in specific ways tailored to how you destroy foes. Even something as simple as shooting a man below you and another one above you at the same time becomes a chore because of how many tasks you have to pull off in a short time. This gets even more complicated when you gain the ability to produce two aiming reticles one of them auto-locks onto the nearest enemy, creating busy scenes that distract from the cool factor.

The radial aiming system makes it difficult to target foes, even in slow motion. While all of this sounds enticing, the shooting is dicey. Puzzles where you have to manipulate switches with bullets also exist, but the spotlight is on downing enemies in stylish ways with pistols, shotguns, uzis, and whatever else you can get your hands on. Sometimes platforming sequences require you to use parkour jumps to get where youвЂ™re going, but theyвЂ™re standard fare. Fortunately, the vague story isnвЂ™t the focus using tools for wreaking havoc is what My Friend Pedro is all about. Your unnamed mask-wearing protagonist and his floating banana pal Pedro go from one end of the screen to the other, blasting bad guys for reasons that donвЂ™t make any sense. My Friend Pedro plays out as a 2.5D side-scroller. However, the sheer amount of effort it takes to reach these moments of glory often makes the enterprise more trouble than itвЂ™s worth. In these instances, PedroвЂ™s systems come together in bloody harmony, letting you conduct a goofy and violent symphony of bullets, dodges, and even the occasional punt of a decapitated head. Usually, youвЂ™re upside down and falling in slow motion, watching as the bullets from your pistol ricochet off the broad side of a frying pan and zoom toward a foeвЂ™s skull. My Friend Pedro is a game about finding a particular moment.

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