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.
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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This was originally a response to a question on Tumblr. Anonymous asked: Whenever I complain about graphic or dark content in media I watch, I keep hearing people retort with this apparently very popular opinion that people who enjoy comfy, wholesome things are actually more…
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This was originally posted as a response to a question on Tumblr. fanofsmbx asked: I saw in your FFXVI review that you'd played Tears of the Kingdom. What were your thoughts on Zelda's role in the game and story? It was okay. Generally, I think…
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A few thoughts on Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective that I posted on Cohost while playing the remaster, now preserved here on this blog. Getting acquainted with the greatest video game character of all time. (I played the first chapter of Ghost Trick way back when it was…
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This was originally posted to Thanks Ken Penders on Tumblr. Eight more episodes of Sonic Prime are out! They’re labeled as “season 2” despite just being the next eight episodes of the first (and presumably only) season, allowing Netflix to market it as multiple seasons…
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Final Fantasy XVI is an easy game to make assumptions about. From the moment it was unveiled, many worried that it would be overly bleak and nihilistic in a series that’s usually anything but. That it would use its newfound ability to more directly depict…
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This was originally an informal post that sort of blew up on Cohost, in which I used the discourse surrounding the open world Zeldas as an example of something that irks me in video game criticism. I've been thinking a lot lately about game design…
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I have now finally seen the Mario movie. It was Pretty Good. Here are my wordy thoughts on it. (I am going to spoil the entire movie. Duh.) In many ways, the Mario movie does what I wish the first Sonic movie had done. They…
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If you paid attention to video game discourse in the ’00s, you may remember a common narrative about Mega Man. The early sidescrollers had been rightfully enshrined as all-time classics, but there was also this weird reboot they did on the Game Boy Advance called…
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Most of this was originally posted as a response to a question on Tumblr. The King of Braves: GaoGaiGar is a cult classic super robot anime from 1997, and the final entry in the Brave franchise, which was kinda sorta a spinoff of Japan's version of…
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This was originally a response to a question on Tumblr. I played about ten hours of Octopath Traveler - everyone’s first chapters and one character’s second chapter - and it was a game that drove me a little insane. First and foremost was the writing,…
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This was originally posted to Thanks Ken Penders on Tumblr. The first eight episodes of Sonic Prime are out! I've been busy for obvious reasons this past week (I kinda released a video game), but I've now seen all eight episodes, and as such can…
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It‘s a miracle that Sonic Frontiers is as good as it is. I don’t mean that I’m shocked a 3D Sonic game is fun. I like 3D Sonic games. As readers of my blog Thanks Ken Penders know, I’m a huge fan of the franchise,…
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I’ve been asked a few times about my thoughts on the new My Little Pony series on Netflix, Make Your Mark — the flagship series for Generation 5. I previously shared more casual thoughts on the preceding movie, My Little Pony: A New Generation, which…
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It’s finally here! IDW Sonic #50! I waited to talk about the Imposter Syndrome miniseries until after #50 dropped, and it turns out #50 has, uh… well, it’s made a big splash. I’m not sure I’ve seen this many people talking about (and/or arguing over)…
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Metroid freakin’ Dread!!!! This will contain spoilers. The TL;DR version is that I loved it, and while it’s always gonna be hard to top Super I’d rank it as my second favorite game in the 2D series, right ahead of Fusion. It’s extremely good. Okay,…
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This was originally a casual, off-the-cuff review posted to Tumblr, in which I pondered the hamfisted political allegory of a movie about talking horses. Hi. I watched the new My Little Pony movie, and it was… pretty good! It was very cute, I like the…
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