This is such an important point that doesn't get nearly enough attention for a lot of H games / studios imo.
The strongest example of this I'll always remember is
Yorna: Monster Girl's Secret by Yeehaw Games. The art style of *most* of that game is absolutely gorgeous, hot af, and - most importantly - the standing art for the characters actually
matches the H scenes. (Nothing I hate more than when a studio hires a completely separate artist for the scenes vs the character art, at that point they're basically different characters...)
But all this to say, in later updates of Yorna, they began to replace the original artist (Meolucky) with some more typical anime-style artists, I think there were a couple, and it lost all of its hotness and soul. Nothing felt like it 'fit' anymore.
Yeehaw went on to develop another game,
MonGirl Sexpedition, and whilst the character art still looks great (it's made by Meolucky), the H scenes don't look anything like the actual characters - just a hodgepodge of random anime artists that don't fit the game's aesthetic.
Prior to that I was following Yeehaw very closely and anticipating their next and any future games, but once they lost the art, they lost everything.
I'll be following Walnuss's project closely, since we know the quality of the porn in
his game is going to be exceptional - but for Mirthal, even if you consider Aurelia a 10/10 game there's no telling whether the next one will be even worth your time until we know the artist. We're not fapping to expert coding or optimisation, we're fapping to girls getting fucked
