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Moroi preview: A grimdark action game that's actually pretty funny

The most surprising thing about Moroi is its sense of humor. And maybe the duck with human teeth.

These shocking moments of levity appear in Moroi at a rapid-fire pace, twisting the vibe from brutality to bizarreness and back until it feels like you’re trapped in a Francisco Goya fever dream directed by Sam Raimi. Each of the cells in Moroi is connected — get the severed hand from the autocannibal so the meat grinder can make bone dust, which you can then give to the creepy wizard, who turns it into salt for the witch, who’s then devoured by her own potion, and so on. The amount of blood-soaked surrealism, frantic combat and body horror in Moroi ’s first hour is impressive, and I’m amped to discover all of the secrets in the full game, no matter how many exploded corpses I have to dig through.

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