>>8462552
>The challenge is the artwork. they went with a bunch of stolen assets, but its a meme game, so it fit.
you can still do this, it's not like it's gonna be any less of a meme game unless you intend to go through serious romantic arcs with your future warm-blooded incubators. And at that point you're just making a regular visual novel.
>most people dont particularly care for ai art
This would be the best option, it's cheap and all it'll take is time for you to get what you want as you cycle through all the bad faces and hands you're gonna deal with. At worst those can be repaired or edited in gimp/photoshop
>commissioning an artist would take time and money
Nope, don't do this, most artist are flakey as fuck. Specially nowadays when they can just claim "metal health days" so they can go play Elden Ring DLCs
>'borrowing' artwork from all over leads to a serious disparity in quality, and that drove me nuts in CoC
Maybe drove you nuts, but not me. If that's such a huge issue for you you can restrict the asset stealing to a single company, most nukige devs tend to stick with the same artstyle since it becomes branding. Bishop for example, has about 30 different games across their catalog, each with 5 different heroines, all looking like pic related.