I read this comment and did the exact same thing, i downloaded this game 3 times and thought the characters were a little derpy so I stopped reading... I made a huge mistake and I'm very thankful for this exact comment starting with:"I picked it up and put it down becausethe art was weird" until I read further and realised that the story was more then enough to make up for slightly derpy character models, though I have a great feeling there will be a part 2 after silver heaven is complete and I really look forward to it, I'm definitely going to read silver heaven now... even if I know how it'll end. But if I'm guessing right it will be more straight or bi oriented which is fine by me, I'm bi.
This fvn was great at controlling the viewers emotions to fit the moment. Background music was a little off for me personally ( there was a single song that just made me think something bad was about to happen but it would be just a normal scenario) otherwise this is currently my favourite vn.
Though after silver heaven I will go read dawn chorus because I trusted your judgement once and I was not disappointed.