I'm making a visual novel

Anything I should know? Any tips to make it more interesting, make it stand out, things I should or should not do?

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are you actually animating or using mo cap and a flat background

(curiosity since these days anyone can do mocap with a vr headset and shoot everything in vrchat basically without having to actually animate (maybe run stills through a photoshop filter to give animation style without the work) just seems like leaving money on the table

Blood related sister heroine.

>tfw you will never do the chicken dance with coco

Do you read?
Ignore the visuals. Those come later, just like the music.
Have you read the classic, modern and post-modern western canon in its entirety? Do you know poetry? Do you understand how prose flows and how the audiovisual aspect can actually be used to enhance it? Do you know about creative writing and its psychoanalitic basis in Jung and Campbell?
Or are you just going to shit out yet another terribly written, poorly researched, shamefully masturbatory weeaboo abortion of the lot because you're such a sad parody of a human being you don't realize Welcome to the NHK was mocking you twenty years before you decided to embark on your stupidly cliche quest? If this is the case, then don't even bother.

I'm currently writing the script, but I plan on paying artists for the graphics. It'll be just normal 2D portraits with 2D backgrounds.

Dont make it shit (danganronpa)
Id focus on your hook alot, plan everything out so the plot makes sense and the ending isnt contrived garbage, and make sure your characters are well developed.
What length do you want it to be and do you have any ideas so far?

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when I last looked at doing this it didnt seem like they make much money (like only 2k per release if successful) so I started thinking of other ways of monetization. like dlc that includes uploadable vrchat avatars etc (which in turn advertise your visual novel ip). the VN becomes more of a marketing platform for upsaleables. if "shot" using avatars (prebaked 3d assets) and lets say your set pieces are accessible on a platform like vrchat you can have uers create their own content further promoting your ip without you having to do anything. the whole thing revolved around a theory that the key to positioning yourself for the metaverse would be recognizability of a 3d asset brand.

Have hot girls, thats literally all you need. Its why dog shit like danganronpa to be popular. Everything else about your game could be absolute ass but if you have hot girls people want to simp for they'll give you money and love your visual novel since most visual novel fans don't really give a fuck.

getting off topic but thats one thing thats missing from the current 3d asset creators is an actual distinguishable brand. everybodys shit is the same cookie cutter clones. no one has a distinguishable brand yet so its still up for the taking.