Developer: DeadToast Entertainment
Publisher: Devolver Digital
Release: Out now
On: Windows
From: Steam, GOG, Humble
For: 15.50, $17, 14.27
My Friend Pedro looks incredible in animated GIFs. That’s how I first encountered it, via a short clip which showed a man in a mask, hanging upside down from a zipline while he fired twin pistols in opposite directions. Now that I’ve played this run-and-gun platformer for myself I can confirm that this is one of many spectacular moves it allows you to smoothly and frequently execute. I can also confirm that these moves don’t feel as good to perform as they look in motion, and that the game fails to support or develop its moveset in interesting ways.