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 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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I have a confession: I took entirely too long to watch Star vs. the Forces of Evil, and I put it off for petty reasons. For one, I thought the show gave off what I’d call “Parry Gripp energy.” Between things like Star’s signature move…
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Last year, towards the beginning of quarantine, I had the very stupid idea to start reading all of the Discworld books in release order, a thing everyone tells you not to do. After reading a pretty okay first book and two thoroughly enjoyable followups, I…
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Two years after its strong premiere season, Aggretsuko has become one of the most frustrating shows I follow. It still has tons of fun moments, but it’s also the kind of story that chickens out every time it’s close to an epiphany about its characters…
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Three novels down in my journey through Discworld! I’ve now read Equal Rites. As the first book not starring Rincewind, this one shifts its focus from wizards to witches, introducing another series mainstay, Granny Weatherwax. While it’s still obvious from the start that this is…
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As I said in my thoughts on The Color of Magic, I’d been told many times that the Discworld series started out rough as Pratchett found his voice over the course of the first few books. Going into the second book, which is a direct…
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So I finally took the plunge and started reading Discworld. It’s something I’d meant to do for a long time, especially after thoroughly enjoying the Good Omens miniseries. I figure I owe it to myself as a comedic fantasy writer to read arguably the most…
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In my recent retrospective on Ken Penders’ run on Archie’s Sonic the Hedgehog and its spinoffs, I was very negative, because reading his comics is often a nightmare. But Ken wasn’t the only writer, and focusing exclusively on him doesn’t paint a full picture of…
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For years now, former Archie Sonic writer Ken Penders has been most well known for his legal battles with Archie and Sega in which he acquired the rights to his characters and stories. Among dedicated Sonic fans, he’s also known for his bad tweets and…
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In hindsight, the game that introduced me to the Kirby series was kind of a weird one.
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