You can achieve A and even S ranking on normal and hard, but you’ll have to toggle on “bananas” mode for the extra score boost to come anywhere near a top 10 score. My Friend Pedro has a steep learning curve for players intent on trying it at its higher difficulties, which is required for those shooting for high scores on the leaderboards.
That’s where the true depth of the game comes in, and it’s not going to be for everyone. Image: Dead Toast Entertainment / Devolver Digitalīut beyond the relatively thin story and the initial gleam of the slow-mo shooting, what’s going to make My Friend Pedro click for you, or not, is whether you’re really interested in score chasing. There are also motorcycle and skateboarding sections that take the standard mix of frenetic action and slowed-down acrobatics and put them on fast-moving rails. For instance, toss a frying pan into the air and you can shoot it with bullets from the other side of a sliver of open window to deflect and rain down bullets in a room you’re not even standing in.
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The other nice touches are environmental items and vehicles that mix up the standard breach formula, which can feel overused after the first few dozen times you’re forced to break through a closed door or jump through a pane of glass into a room full of enemies. Once you get the hang of it, you’ll feel appropriately like a Keanu Reeves character, equal parts The Matrix and John Wick.
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At the advice of a friend, I remapped the slow-mo feature from the 元 position to the right bumper button on Switch, and I started playing almost exclusively on the Switch Pro controller when I wanted to be more precise with my aiming. Image: DeadToast Entertainment / Devolver Digitalĭo all of these at once - a feat that is not all that easy given the sometimes cumbersome console control scheme - and you can shower an entire room with bullets in pretty much all directions, while dodging enemy fire as you spin and somersault. Those include flips midair that require that you slow down time, flips off of walls and ledges, shooting in two directions simultaneously, and spinning while grounded or while flipping to dodge bullets. For one, there’s a unique, albeit rather convoluted, set of aerial maneuvers you can pull off to earn extra points and look even cooler while you clear a room of bad guys. My Friend Pedro has a few truly spectacular touches that make it different from your standard bullet time shoot ‘em up. You’ll also look badass while you’re doing it. In My Friend Pedro, you’re slowing down time to make gun shots more precise and yourself more acrobatic. In Katana Zero, you can slow down time to deflect or dodge bullets with a samurai sword.
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The two titles are Devolver-published games from tiny teams and revolve around a signature slow-mo feature, and both are targeting console gamers solely on the Nintendo Switch, with Steam releases to reach the PC crowd. My Friend Pedro shares a lot of its DNA with another recently released indie game called Katana Zero, both of which take a few well-established game ideas and stitch them together in a stylish package. My Friend Pedro shares a lot of its DNA with another recent indie game called Katana Zero