Dwarfs, Dragons and Comedy Horror Speedruns
What's new on Savvy Gaming Network for the Month of January 2025
This January month was a busy one. It started off with AGDQ, which was very good this year, so good in fact it convinced me to play one of the games being run. Bite Night was played during the awful block at AGDQ and it made me laugh so hard I had to stop watching and start playing. This led to me playing both games released by this developer and a third is coming out this February!
While reading Dragon Age Tevinter Nights for the book club I decided to replay Dragon Age Inquisition before starting The Veilguard. Currently playing Veilguard, I wanted to finish it before the next book club but its a long ass game. It was also a long ass episode of The Video Game Book Club to edit but I’m working on it.
I also finally finished The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria. I shared my honey cake recipe for that game last month but they are so yummy I’m going to repost in this newsletter. Lets get on to the meat and potatoes, shall we?
A Look Back at Dragon Age: Inquisition
A little retrospective I wrote about my replay of Dragon Age Inquisition. I really enjoyed Inquisition I don’t think its the best Dragon Age ( Dragon Age 2 has my heart and will not let go) but I was impressed by how much your previous game choices are brought up. It is a bummer that it uses a website ( Dragon Age Keep ) to import your choices from the pervious two games because that website wont be around forever. While I think this game has the worst set of companions ( they feel like reluctant co-workers) there are still moments between them that made me cry a little. It may not be the best Dragon Age but its still a good Dragon Age, in fact I haven’t played a Dragon Age I didn’t like.
Top 10 AGDQ Speedruns to Check out According to Savvy
I love GDQ, long time watcher sometimes donator. This year had a sorta music theme; we had Wes playing Super Mario Bro’s on a Piano, a live band during the Crazy Taxi run, a Opera performance, Eden Ring on the Saxophone by Dr. Doot and so much more. Its a 24 hour event throughout an entire week so as you can image there are a lot of runs to watch. I watch as much as I can throughout the week but I am only human. My top 10 GDQ lists are in no particular order and if a run doesn’t make the list it doesn’t mean I didn’t like it, it just didn’t make the list. Check out my full list here .
Let me know if there are any cool runs I should check out that I may have missed!
Bite Night
Bite Night was played during AGDQ this year I caught like 2 seconds of the run then decided to play it myself. Its a comedy horror game about working the night shift at a gas station. Its fairly short taking about 30 mins to complete. Not much to say without spoilers but if you are not convinced maybe watch a little bit of my playthrough.
Invasion of The Halloween Fiends
The second game the Bite Night developer made, a Halloween themed comedy horror game called Invasion of the Halloween Fiend (or Fiends). This time you play as a kid alone at home during Halloween passing out candy and dealing with strangers. I personally didn’t like this one as much as Bite Night but it does add more gameplay mechanics and it even has dialogue options. Its also about 30mins in length and if you wanna view before you try I also played through this one.
The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria Review
Alright the big boy, that took me forever to complete. The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria is a survival crafting game that takes place after the events of The Lord of the Rings where you play of as a dwarf of your own creation who falls into Moria and much escape. Sounds cool right? It is at the start but it so repetitive and long I was losing my mind.
I hate to critique a game for length, its actually a good thing because it means you get more bang for your buck but is it really worth it if it feels bloated and boring. That’s a personal thing, one man’s annoyance is another man’s joy. I could have stopped but I forced myself to keep going because it felt like If I stopped, everything I did up to this point would be useless so I pushed through. Full thoughts on the game are here.
Do you find it hard to drop games you already invested a lot of time in?
Beorn’s Honey-Cake from Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria
One of the best things to come out of me playing The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria are these Honey Cakes. I made them during my playthrough and they are delicious! These honey cakes are a dwarfen twist on the Hobbit twice baked honey cake recipe. Recipe here. Enjoy!