Ending

[Crowbar?]

Hello, I wanted to ask everybody something, because
at the end of the game when you have to kill Pedro and take of your mask, you have the same face as Pedro. SoI wandered if maybe actually, YOU (the player) are Pedro. I don't know, if I'm not over complicating everything, but maybe it is something like, that the banana represented your past self, or your alter ego that was created when you lost your memory and killing him was a way to show that you are free of your problems or something. I dunno, plz help

[Scarabess]

I think you are right about "alter ego". Banana is Pedro's memories (emotions maybe), his true self. He is kinda soft and sensitive, you may notice that he likes cute things. But how comes that he knows about contrabandists routes and such? Because he was there and knew all that. He just was too soft to kill his own family to stop all this. So he throwed away his humanity/conscience. At the end new Pedro fight for his life, because he do not want to die. Maybe he don't feel guilty since he cannot remember his family. Maybe he think that it's unfair. Maybe he's a blank husk now. But the job's done. What he will going to do next? Honestly, I don't know. A bit tragic story. But hey, we've got ourselves a new cool psycho!

[Ethan]

Doom Guy?
get that out of here

Now we got Pedro Guy, or Banana Guy, or maybe even Yo Mama Guy.

[Mojo The Rising]

[SPOILERS!!!!]

Cool theory. Like the banana Pedro is the real Pedro's Id or something. Wow, it feels weird to apply Freud to this game, lol.

So that would make the "Pedro land" levels just a dream he had when he almost drowned in the water? Wonder what the "haters" represent, then? Maybe bits of his conscience that he had to kill off to finish the job?

[Ceranoe]

SPOILER WARNING!!! ALTHOUGH YOU SHOULDNT BE READING THIS THREAD IF YOU HAVENT BEATEN IT YET!!!

Its not a bad idea but I like the ambiguity of this games story. At the end we are essentially told that Ophelia is our sister, Denny is our brother, Mitch is our father, they were bad people and we killed them all for reasons. The start and the end leave a lot to personal interpretation. I personally like to think that the player character isnt related to any of the villains at all but rather is a simple vigilante who got caught and beaten causing brain damage which is why you see Pedro in the first place, then it gets progressively worse hence the hallucinations, the dream sequence levels and progressively weirder story locations and enemies. (the gamers and the fact that the last set of levels is the "internet") Things stop making sense around half way through and I like to think that the dialogue of them being "family" is part of the players brain damage induced delusion. I am a big fan of the "insane anti-hero" trope so this game hits all of those spots for me.

Sorry for the wall of text and did you notice that at the end the "top knot" hairstyle is actually the stem of a banana? I feel like it took me a lot longer to notice that than it should have.

[fugsystem]

Personally, I think it's a lot simpler than that.

It's exactly what the game tells you, Pedro, the banana, is a very separate being from the player character, the player character, Pedro and the protag probably used to be friends before all of the game's story took place, as for what Pedro himself is? Probably some sort of weird, but benevolent being who just, legitimately wanted to do what the Protag himself wanted to do.

The protag himself is probably super soft of a person, simple, but with trained skills, chances are, Pedro trained both the protag, and Ophelia, you can see it, when he took us to that little dojo of his, he was immediately able to jog protag's memories on how to use focus, and perform the flips and such, just by bringing back the muscle memory after taking control of their bodies.

With the way Pedro's world seems to have little to no real sense, it'd be the perfect place to efficiently train the discipline needed to execute such things, they were probably taught it as just, self-defense, it just so happens that Protag isn't as much of a cold-blooded killer as everyone else, and while he IS capable of it, he doesn't like it, and finds it disgusting and needless, y'know, like a normal person would, Ophelia, due to the way she words things at the ending, was probably taught to be very naturally cold, and had other thoughts.

They went their separate ways, the Protag and Pedro not really wanting anything to do with any of his family's stuff, Protag probably just tried to pretend he didn't see anything, and nothing happened, eventually, Protag couldn't take it anymore, pretending what his family was doing as ok, and just, reached out to Pedro for help, and Pedro agreed, and that's how we got the game's plot.

Or y'know.

Maybe ♥♥♥♥ is just bananas, and isn't really supposed to be that deep, that's just how it is.