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My friend pedro flash6/2/2023 ![]() ![]() That button is a way for Victor Ågren, the game’s sole creator, to enable you to always strive to be a badass until he realized people just did that anyway. The game even plays back your coolest moments at the end of the level, complete with a “Share to Twitter” button. But if it’s already fun to be like Neo from the beginning of The Matrix, then it must only feel better once you kick ass like Neo at the end of The Matrix. It was already satisfying to flip around like a dolt and miss my shots and crash into walls thanks to the slick controls and goofy, hyperviolent presentation. My Friend Pedro Preview: Banana Split and Flip There’s a bit of a mechanical learning curve of telling what your fingers should do and how they should quickly do it, but it was a good challenge that I wanted to overcome. Flipping off walls and trying to hit multiple targets is appropriately difficult to pull of at first but I gradually got better at nailing shots and looking rad while doing it. It looks a little awkward at first but it controls well. You can wall jump, roll, spin around, fire your weapons in different directions, and more and can link each together to make shootouts more akin to a ballet recital but with only slightly more gruesome murder. It’s an over-the-top, side-scrolling shooter where how you kill is as important as what you kill. Its bloodiness is a direct result given its Max Payne and Equilibrium influences. My Friend Pedro doesn’t have much in common with that bloody game Devolver Digital’s booth was full of odd, disparate games as well but one reminded of Hotline Miami, one of the publisher’s most famous early games. Capcom, Sony, Microsoft, and more all have their big booths that showcase their breadth of titles. PAX West, like most conventions, was divided up by publisher.
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