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My Friend Pedro

My Friend Pedro is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand My Friend Pedro rather than just read about it. In short: My Friend Pedro is a 2019 run and gun video game developed by Swedish developer DeadToast Entertainment and published by Devolver Digital. The game was released for Nintendo Switch and Windows on 20 June 2019 and for Xbox One on 5 December 2019.

Key takeaways

My Friend Pedro belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect My Friend Pedro to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of My Friend Pedro from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

My Friend Pedro is a 2019 run and gun video game developed by Swedish developer DeadToast Entertainment and published by Devolver Digital. The game was released for Nintendo Switch and Windows on 20 June 2019 and for Xbox One on 5 December 2019. A PlayStation 4 port of the game was released on 2 April 2020. My Friend Pedro is based on an Adobe Flash game named MFP: My Friend Pedro that was released by Adult Swim Games in 2014. A free-to-play spin-off, titled, My Friend Pedro: Ripe for Revenge, was released for iOS and Android on August 5, 2021.

Gameplay

My Friend Pedro involves the player traversing a variety of themed levels while killing enemies, at the behest of a talking banana named Pedro. The game iterates on the gameplay featured in the flash game, including similar controls, mechanics and weaponry. Along with the ability to slow time, the player can now kick objects or enemies, split their aim between targets and dodge bullets by spinning. The game also features parkour elements such as flips, wall jumps and rolls, which can be used to increase the number of points awarded. Another new feature allows players to kill enemies by ricocheting bullets off frying pans or signs, which also adds to the point total. Points are awarded for each successful hit from the player, while each kill increases the current point multiplier. Players are given a rank at the end of each level based on their total number of points, which is shared on a global leaderboard.

Plot The game begins with a masked, unnamed, silent protagonist waking up inside a butcher shop owned by a man named Mitch. The protagonist is instructed by Pedro (a floating sentient banana) that Mitch is an arms dealer and must be eliminated. Upon escaping the butchery and killing Mitch, the protagonist heads to the district Null, an abandoned community project now home to a man named Denny and his army of bounty hunters. When confronting Denny he flees but reveals that his sister Ophelia controls the Internet. The protagonist deals with Denny and heads via the sewers to confront Ophelia. After defeating Ophelia, it is revealed that the protagonist has been systematically killing his own family: with Mitch being his father, Denny his brother and Ophelia his sister. Pedro reveals to the player that the protagonist despised his family for their criminal activities, but could not bring himself to kill them, so he knocked himself unconscious and erased his memory so that he could eliminate his family without guilt. Upon revealing this, Pedro jams himself into the protagonist's ear and tries to have him shoot himself. The final battle is a visual representation of the protagonist's mental struggle to resist Pedro's influence. With Pedro defeated, the protagonist removes his mask, revealing that he was Pedro all along with the banana being nothing but a figment of his imagination.

Development

My Friend Pedro started development in February 2015 "on and off" until indirectly announcing that development would be in full swing on 4 December 2015 in a devlog. It had been announced that it was in the pre-alpha stage of development on 21 November 2015 aimed to release on PC and "eventually" macOS computers.

Reception

My Friend Pedro received "generally favorable reviews" according to review aggregator Metacritic. IGN's Mitchell Saltzman reviewed it with an 8.5/10 score, saying it "simply feels great to play", while noting that the campaign has little replay value. The game was nominated for "Fresh Indie Game" with DeadToast Entertainment at The Game Awards 2019.

Television series On July 2, 2020, Legendary Television, it was announced that Dmitri M. Johnson’s DJ2 Entertainment, David Leitch, and Derek Kolstad will produce a R-rated half-hour dramedy television series adaptation of the game with Kolstad set as the showrunner.

References

External links Official website

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with My Friend Pedro

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what My Friend Pedro claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to My Friend Pedro before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about My Friend Pedro ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of My Friend Pedro

In research: My Friend Pedro appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses My Friend Pedro in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: My Friend Pedro is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2019 video games, Bananas in popular culture, Devolver Digital games, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for My Friend Pedro outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study My Friend Pedro in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what My Friend Pedro means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain My Friend Pedro out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is My Friend Pedro in simple terms?

Why does My Friend Pedro matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study My Friend Pedro?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on My Friend Pedro.