If a game has great visuals but a weak story, I can still enjoy it a lot. (as long as the navigation is set up well). But if it has a strong story but everything else is lacking, then frankly I'd rather just read the story on Literotica or something like that. The poor visuals are a huge distraction, in that scenario.
For this one, the visuals are terrific and the women are all really hot. To me, that's a huge starting point to jump off from, and I want to see more!
The visuals of the other one weren't terrible (other than the MC), but people tend to prefer Daz over Honey Select (some won't even touch HS games unless they have rave reviews).
I find the stark contrast between the attention/support of the two games interesting.
The dev does actually have the ability to write a decent story (as far as I can remember) and this story seems incredibly lacking in comparison. If he were to actually combine a decent story with more appealing visuals, then he'd be on to a real winner (e.g. if he were to remake the other game using Daz). That's just my opinion though. There are plenty of people that only care about the visuals and just skip past any story/dialogue regardless.
The visuals in this one are decent, though I find the faces to have a bit of an over-processed/filtered/photoshopped (i.e. unnatural) look to them (some more than others), like a lot of the selfies that girls/women share to social media nowadays. The aunt's dimensions are a little much too in my opinion, but I suppose that's more of a personal preference.