I have a question.
I am wondering about the quality in renders. Who likes Photorealistic more then carttonish or plastic look when playing VN games?
I myself like both, to me what matters most is how the game is played, or the story.
The art is almost secondary for me I guess. Most important is a well told, well paced story written in decent enough English (the lack of pacing is why most open world games fail in this genre). I'm willing to overlook some spelling and grammatical mistakes but if the game has really broken English I will lose interest pretty quickly.
As for what art style I prefer... I guess I prefer Daz over Honey Select (While Daz games feel somewhat same-y because the backgrounds are often reused while with HS the characters are often very similar if not identical as well). In 2D art I prefer a modern western cartoon style.
If you want to blow my socks off with a games art you should probably make it in Daz with custom scenes and clothing. You should make the world feel lived in and think about the details in the art. (Or be Baindrop I do not know how he(?) cranks out that large an update each week)