The art really shines in these few segments and the writing does a good job of selling the sexuality of the moment. Though when the porn does show up, I personally wasn’t disappointed. It is distinctly a revenge story with erotic elements, not vice versa. If you are coming to Broken heart Bordello first and foremost to jack off, you have made a huge mistake. We’re talking maybe one sex scene per hour if you’re lucky. Of the small portion of the game that’s accompanied by art, an even smaller percentage is accompanied by erotic art. With maybe twenty pieces at most per chapter stretched out over hours of content, the game is oddly bland to look at in its current form. Problem is, much like those sex scenes, there just isn’t enough art. What art is present is top tier, helping the infrequent sex scenes to really pop. Akabur’s linework here is a lot rougher than usual, helping make the world of Broken heart Bordello feel genuinely rough and tumble. Altogether, the five chapters make for about 10 to 15 hours of playtime, a good 30% of which is going to be pretty boring.Īrtistically speaking, there are lots of black and white images. Now, some of this dialogue is really interesting, and if you’re playing this game, you should know that Smersh is not hit too badly by the transition to writing in English. These conversations can run for hours, without any sign of sex in sight. Most of the time you spend playing the game centers on talking. This consistency is why it’s so fucking strange when it breaks tone so often. It’s on the nose, but I’m a sucker for consistency of tone. The fantastic dark score that accompanies the whole thing this rougher, monochrome version of Akabur’s familiar style the fact that everyone is wearing cool hoods and talking in dark, terse sentences with swear words peppered in liberally. If that aesthetic has one thing going for it, it’s that it oozes tone. In Broken Heart Bordello, the aesthetic and the narrative are king. There is a significantly teensier whore training element though, so almost all of your time in the game will be spent advancing the revenge plot and talking to people. This is especially true in later chapters, where the UI becomes basically identical, with even the same system of quest subdivision. All of them use Akabur’s classic mechanical system of clicking around town, talking to various denizens and making progress on various quests that the game assigns you. Chapters are divided so that each chapter is essentially a different game. The game presently has five chapters available, but hunting for them through Smersh’s Patreon can be a chore, so I included individualized links at the end of this preview. Secondly, from a mechanical standpoint, the game plays like Akabur’s other games and clearly uses large segments of the Princess Trainer code. This is all important for two reasons: firstly, the strange nature of the original story is probably the cause of many of the game’s stranger points. Years later, the two decided to turn it into a visual novel. The way the story would move was based on the choices the readers made. The whole thing is based on an odd webpage-based online interactive story the two made some time back, which - for any Russian readers interested - is still up today. This game started before Akabur struck it big, and he and Smersh are apparently childhood friends.
Broken Heart Bordello is a visual novel by two Russian devs: writer Smersh and artist Akabur (the same Akabur who made Princess Trainer and Witch Trainer). That means one can expect to see monochrome shots, men with stubble gazing upon things with their dark eyes, rough, violent fucking with worn-out whores, and - surprisingly enough - kooky sports tournaments? It’s the story of a man returning from a city he was once exiled from to get vengeance on his family’s killers.
Lines like that are no stranger to Broken Heart Bordello.
You imagine him saying it while smoking a cigar, drinking whiskey and staring off into the distance with a glare that could melt steel beams. The sentence above is pretty much one of the most noir things to come out of a character’s mouth. Smersh and Akabur are making Broken Heart Bordello, a visual novel where you play a man on a path of vengeance, sex, and handball.
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