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.
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…
Continue reading...
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…
Continue reading...
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…
Continue reading...
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,…
Continue reading...
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…
Continue reading...
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…
Continue reading...
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,…
Continue reading...
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,…
Continue reading...
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,…
Continue reading...
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…
Continue reading...
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…
Continue reading...
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…
Continue reading...
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…
Continue reading...
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…
Continue reading...
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?…
Continue reading...
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…
Continue reading...
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…
Continue reading...
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…
Continue reading...
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…
Continue reading...
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…
Continue reading...