My Friend Pedro is a complete waste of time. It's not fun. It's not engaging. It's not witty. It's up its own pretentious keister trying to be funny and failing miserably. This game feels like it's a game jam game that needed way more time to cook than it had.

Let's start with the mechanics. The dodge bullet thing seems like it'd be neat, but in reality, you're either spamming that and shooting, or spamming that and the slow down mechanic and shooting. The enemies all take way too long to be killed, the snap reticle feature that's on by default (I couldn't be bothered to figure out if I could turn it off, but even if you could, it wouldn't do you much good because even if you have the sight right at the target if it doesn't turn red chances are your bullets won't do much anyways) constantly screws up your aim when the game presents at least four targets for you to shoot in many situations.

And then there's the guns. The guns, except for the infinity pistols, are generally good. The problem is that whoever designed this game decided that ammo would be incredibly rare - so you barely get to use the guns that actually have a chance at killing the enemies quickly enough for you to not yet again enter a "dodge / slow down time / hope the lock on works - fire your guns anyways / keep dodging / oh hey you won" loop.

The writing is dumb. The story is virtually non-existent. I have no idea what the ending is supposed to mean, and at this point, I don't really care at all anyways.

I think at around area two or three was when the "I don't care about this character at all" syndrome sets in. Oh yeah, and the binding for the slow down time mechanism is on the thumbstick by default, and as a player who wants to play with the default controls as they should be the better option, this gets really old really fast as I'm constantly accidentally turning on slow motion because I press down on the thumbsticks too hard.

Speaking of the thumbsticks, the movement in this game is either too incredibly slow (general walking progression) or way too fast (skateboarding, or going down on ropes) for the "puzzles" - and I use that term loosely - to be fun rather than an aggravating obstacle that you can merely use the "smash your character's face into the brick wall enough times to see the other side" strategy because the movement is terrible. Everything normally feels in slow mo anyways, so when I spammed the slow motion, sometimes I didn't even realize.

The "puzzles" that needed movement were the worst, in particular the alarm section, because the momentum of the character is used and it will trip you up, especially because the developer decided that just a tiny downwards motion would make the character go into an almost uncontrollable rolling animation and subsequently fall into a pit or go into a laser beam or meet their demise some other way.

There is also a level that introduces mines that, I don't know if anyone else encountered this bug, but they all stuck to my player character and didn't explode, and they kept doing this preventing me from making progress because I couldn't see - and they did this even after the checkpoint. I had to restart that level over again.

The only good thing I have to say about this game is that at least it's short. It has ambition, and I see where it was trying to go with it, but it's not enough to have ambition without execution. This game fails remarkably, and I was so hoping it was good just based on the trailers, but unfortunately I cannot recommend this game.

For the first 10 minutes it seems fun, but it is very boring and repetitive and the gunplay isn't satisfying. Don't buy.

Great and funny and cool game