Hi, I'm Bobby Schroeder (she/her), an indie dev, writer, and furry artist from Florida. You may know me as the creator of Super Lesbian Animal RPG, or as the writer behind the Archie Sonic blog Thanks Ken Penders, or from any number of other side projects. This blog is the new home for my more formal writing—typically longform reviews of video games and cartoons and whatnot—and a smattering of other blog posts. Right now it's mostly a collection of things I previously posted to places like Medium, Tumblr, and Cohost (RIP), but moving forward it will be a home for original pieces as well. Enjoy!
My work is supported via my Patreon, where you can also read a bunch of behind-the-scenes deep dives about my game dev work.
Did you know they make comic books that don't star Sonic the Hedgehog? Or even any of his friends? Shocking, I know! Did you also know that, instead of waiting for live action adaptations that mostly end up being mediocre, you can just go straight to the…
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Berserk Boy, released earlier this year, is a game I enjoyed moment to moment, but I wish I enjoyed it more. As it stands, it's overall a pretty good game that I hope did well enough to warrant a sequel to refine its ideas further,…
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This was originally posted to Thanks Ken Penders on Tumblr. The day has finally come. Many, understandably, thought we’d never get here. Maybe we shouldn’t have gotten here. We’ve been through so much. Lawsuits, reboots, redesigns, unreleased NFTs, empty legal threats over the fact that…
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Recently, Anthony and I watched the original 1998 Trigun anime, one of my boyfriend’s favorites that I'd always meant to get around to. I enjoyed it a lot. Immediately after this, we figured we'd watch Orange's modernized CGI take on the series from last year,…
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This was originally an informal Cohost post reminiscing about some wish fulfillment stories I wrote as a kid, and some creative decisions that were funny in hindsight. The most obvious part of my furry awakening was just the fact that I grew up as a…
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This was originally posted to Thanks Ken Penders on Tumblr. The announcement of a live action Knuckles streaming miniseries was surprising, to say the least. I mean, what would such a show even be about in a version of the Sonic universe with no Angel…
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This was originally a response to a question on Tumblr. rakruined asked: Do you have any advice for people making OCs/sonas? Yours are really well rounded and unique and I'd greatly appreciate the insight of someone who got a passion project off the ground! So…
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This year I got a Letterboxd account in an attempt to watch more movies. Early in the year, I watched and thoroughly enjoyed Asteroid City, and afterwards decided to watch the rest of Wes Anderson's filmography as well, since I'd been meaning to watch a lot of…
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I never expected to watch Hazbin Hotel, the raunchy musical dramedy about demons created by Vivienne “VivziePop” Medrano. (No, not that one. The one with the wolf girl is Helluva Boss. This is the other one.) I just don’t vibe with the characters, the aesthetics,…
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Here's a series of informal posts I made on Cohost as I was playing Alan Wake 2, a game I ended up really adoring after some ups and downs in the early hours, as well as the games that led up to it. These were…
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This was originally a response to a question on Tumblr. Anonymous asked: Was rereading your FFXVI article the other day and I got curious to know why you don’t like Bravely Default and Octopath. I agree that Octopath is a tedious dumpster fire, but I…
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This was originally posted to Thanks Ken Penders on Tumblr. Well, here we are. The final seven episodes of Sonic Prime are out on Netflix, concluding the story of Sonic’s adventures in the Shatterverse. I’ve previously shared my thoughts on the first and second seasons,…
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This past year I kept a running list of everything I watched, every game I finished, every new album I listened to, etc., and wrote one-paragraph blurbs with my thoughts on every single one. Please enjoy this journey through everything I liked, or didn’t like,…
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A few years ago I did a thread on Twitter about Kirby music I love that highlights the variety of the series' soundtracks. Songs that are a far cry from the jolly, upbeat standards that non-fans know from smash like Green Greens and Gourmet Race,…
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This was originally posted on Tumblr to my Spider-Man blog, Thanks Steve Ditko. I beat the main story of Marvel's Spider-Man 2 and have enjoyed my time with the game overall! I want to talk about spoilers and things that I liked and disliked in the…
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This was originally posted as a public post on my Patreon for the first anniversary of Super Lesbian Animal RPG's release. It's already been a year. This week marks one year since the Super Lesbian Animal RPG Patreon Beta, when players first got their hands…
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I took the announcement of the new Steam Deck OLED as a sign that maybe it was time for me to get one. So I did. I doubted how much I really NEEDED one of these, considering I'm a homebody indie dev who doesn't need…
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I've been playing Mario Wonder and it is, of course, an absolutely masterful platformer, as expected. It's phenomenal. I'm having a blast with it. BUT... those talking flowers......... They definitely don't ruin the experience, and they have some good jokes here and there (which is…
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This was originally posted to Thanks Ken Penders on Tumblr. Superstars is out! And guess what? It’s good! It’s a worthy new entry in the series, and I mostly like it. Mostly. Except for the handful of parts I don’t. As usual, allow me to…
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This was originally posted to Thanks Ken Penders on Tumblr. So I wrote a whole long thing about Amy’s tarot cards, but what about, you know… the rest of the Sonic Frontiers DLC? The new alternate story route, the hours of new gameplay, all that?…
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