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 Sonic blog Thanks Ken Penders. This blog is the home for my more formal writing—typically longform reviews of video games and TV shows and whatnot, with the occasional post about my work 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.
I was worried about Metroid Prime 4: Beyond prior to release, between the eight or nine years of development across two completely different studios and the last few trailers focusing on things that felt decidedly un-Metroid. I was worried it was going to be a…
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To put it mildly, I did not like the first season of Hazbin Hotel. Almost two years ago now I wrote a scathing 13,000 word review on the many issues I had with it—not just the surface level stuff people online always make fun of…
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Depending on who you ask, the first season of The Simpsons might not be included as part of the show's beloved "golden age" up through season 8. It's kind of an odd transitional stage between the original shorts and the show that would become the gold…
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Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is here! I felt a bit lukewarm on the road to its launch. Now that it's out... well, look, this review's late, we already know how much everyone's loving the game by now. It kicks ass. It's the successor to Sonic and…
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As Anthony continues to get more into Transformers with me, we've taken a break from reading the IDW comics to watch some of the classic cartoons he'd never seen before. You can read the comics without any other Transformers familiarity, sure, but I feel like the context…
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Fifty of my favorite games of 2024 just got ported to Switch all at once. What were the odds? If you're out of the loop, let me get you up to speed first. UFO 50 is a collection of 50 new 8-bit games, developed over…
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Apologies for the lack of updates on gamedev stuff or art in recent months. It's been a difficult year for personal reasons I won't get into, as well as the same reasons it's been a difficult year for everyone else. The world sucks right now.
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This post will contain full spoilers for Deltarune Chapter 1-4 and Undertale. Coming straight from YOUR house, it's the new Deltarune chapters! They're out! They're great! Of course they're great. Undertale is my favorite game ever made, and it seems likely that Deltarune will take that title…
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After nearly a decade of pestering, I've finally done it: I've gotten Anthony to start reading IDW's Transformers comics. I'm also rereading them along with him, since it's been years since I last read any of them. I write all of these blog posts in…
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This was originally posted as a review on my Backloggd account. It's long enough that I can justify putting it on my formal blog too. Mega Man 8 is one of the very best Mega Man games, and I will not be silenced. I don't…
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I just rewatched all of Twin Peaks with my boyfriend, who had never seen it! Here are some random musings on the series. This post will contain full spoilers throughout for the original run of Twin Peaks, Fire Walk with Me, and The Return. Twin Peaks can be a…
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Part of me would like to do a much longer Umineko review and go way more in depth, but I'm already in the middle of writing two other huge game reviews, so I need to just do the sane thing and keep this one on the…
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I'm still making my way through the excellent Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. While watching that series, though, I've had a nostalgic hankering for the two preceding Trek series, which I hadn't watched in years. So I figured: why not watch the movies? I'd never seen any…
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2024! What a year. A horrible, miserable year. But at least a lot of stuff I enjoyed came out in that time frame, right? In 2023, I wrote a one-paragraph review for every single thing I watched, read, played, or listened to, and then shared…
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Mirrored from the original post on Thanks Ken Penders. On December 10th, 2018, I was on the last day of a trip to Milwaukee. The night before, I'd attended the wedding of one of my best friends, Jake, who I've known since high school. Even…
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In October I announced my departure from Twitter. Believe it or not, this wasn't an easy decision. I'd used my main account for over 12 years, literally my entire adult life, and in that time I'd built up a decent following of over 15,000 followers.
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This will contain some spoilers for the first season of DS9, if you care about spoilers from a season of television that aired the year I was born. Star Trek has long been a series I've meant to get back into. I enjoyed the many scattered episodes…
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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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