The writing of Super Lesbian Animal RPG is so strong that it can turn seemingly ordinary lines into something special. Bobby Ponett draws inspiration from a lot of different sources in her writing, but some of the comedic moments in the game are actually "standard" sitcom jokes. For those of us who grew up on bad 80's sitcoms, these jokes often fail to land because we experienced them as badly-written TV shows trying to tell us jokes, complete with canned laughter to "remind" us that we were supposed to laugh with them. With good writing, though, you won't notice the jokes unless you're specifically looking for them, because you experience the jokes as the natural speech and responses of well-defined characters you already know, speech that just happens to also be funny. The characters in SLARPG are so well-defined, and the story so compelling, that laugh lines which would make many of us roll our eyes if they were told anywhere else, become genuinely funny because they're realistic dialogue, not something being forced on us for the sake of "comedy."
Bobby has a plethora of top-tier original jokes in SLARPG, but her ability to use older jokes so effectively is yet another testament to her writing skill, and further evidence of why SLARPG is one of the best new video games of the past twenty years.
