![]() ![]() It's got the "easy to learn, hard to master" thing. None of this is pre-animated it's all within standard game physics, so I could feel like I'm accomplishing something impressive for once in my miserable life. I want to emphasize, though, that the core combat is really good I smash through a window on a skateboard, kick the same skateboard into somebody's eye socket, back-flip over his friend, shooting two guys at once, kick a frying pan into the air and shoot at it so the bullets ricochet into three other guys who were in cover and had apparently latched onto some mad idea that it was in their power to stop me, and then, for the first time since initially entering the room, I touch the floor. These days, all the cool kids use durians and açaí berries. "It's random! The Internet loves that shit!" Except, speaking as an Internet comedy grandee, bananas are pretty old-hat as random humor goes my grandma uses bananas in her random word association jokes. I don't know, a banana with a smiley face. So the main character is some dude, in a gas mask, and he shoots people wearing Christmas sweaters, and his best friend is. The core gameplay is super-acrobatic gun combat where you use slow-motion to flip and jump all over the place getting insane kill combos, and everything else seems to have been worked out in five minutes by someone who goofs off work all day watching all the Homestar Runner videos. ![]() Anyway, My Friend Pedro is a 2.5D platform shooter I feel like I've been hearing about for ages now, which is the classic example of a game that has put a sterling amount of effort into its core second-by-second gameplay and bugger-all else. And then, who knows? Perhaps we can get you released from that contract with Satan. Thanks, games industry now, let's work on the "constantly trying to steal money from children and vulnerable people" thing. It's taken slightly longer than usual to have to do an indie double-bill normally, the drought period sets in pretty quickly after E3. This week on Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee reviews My Friend Pedro and Sea of Solitude. ![]()
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