My Friend Pedro review - slick 2D shooting that slips over itself

My Friend Pedro

My Friend Pedro is a violent ballet about friendship, imagination, and one man’s struggle to obliterate anyone in his path at the behest of a sentient banana.

My Friend Pedro is a side-scrolling action game in which you kick skateboards at gangster's heads under the guidance of a talking banana. Would you like a longer introduction, or shall we crack on?

Yeah, that's what I thought.

Your nameless protagonist (Pedro is the name of the banana, just in case "the talking banana" wasn't specific enough) awakes rather inconveniently in the basement of a mafia hideout. He has no memory of how he got there, and his only companion is a floating piece of fruit that strongly encourages him to kill everyone, which I suppose is as good a motivation as any.

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