How do you guys move/start a new route?

[Nimbus]

It varies for me.
sometimes, especially if there's a long common route, I'll use the skip button but other times when i really like what's in the common route and it's a little shorter I'll read through the whole thing. 

[HMN]

i skip all the read text there isn't a need to read it all over again

[dreamweaver]

make save files at every route or follow walkthroughs.

usually too lazy to do the latter xD

[SilverLi]

I am always saving at every choice in a system I made up myself (love the 100 saving slots). But I usually just play a VN once with the character I like the most. After that I decide if I felt incomplete or I thought another route is in my taste. I still got around 80% of incomplete games with one or more routes left to play. I just don't like every character. I know I should give them a chance but...

If I can't access a route I use a walkthrough to just know where the branching starts and I just load it from there.

 

I usually occasionally skip text I've read before or at least quickly skim through with fast autoplay/tapping skip button just to orientate myself.  

[CharlotteHelene]

hmmm.. interesting opinions.. .. so i'm gonna read it all over again in case there is something changed between every choice.

[Vokoca]

I absolutely love the 'fast skip' button Nitro+ tends to add to their VNs, where instead of fast-forwarding through everything, it exits the VN and jumps right onto the next choice/unread text. More VNs should use this, it's amazing.

 

Grisaia also had a very similar button.

[Flutterz]

I just start the game over and skip all of the dialogue that's already been read.

[Freestyle80]

I absolutely love the 'fast skip' button Nitro+ tends to add to their VNs, where instead of fast-forwarding through everything, it exits the VN and jumps right onto the next choice/unread text. More VNs should use this, it's amazing.

Grisaia also had a very similar button.

u mean jump to the next choice butyon?

yea that is good to have

[hydro]

Thank God for skip all read text. Though occasionally when entering a different route "read text" doesn't include stuff that happens in multiple routes that you've already seen in another. The epitome of a first world problem, but still, shit sucks man.

[Chewy]

Play a route, then directly after switch and do that max 5 times before a break of about a week. Obviously skip all read text.

[Praeliator]

I basically start the game again, skip all the read text and make choices that are different from last time.

[nohman]

I usually just make a number of saves at certain flags. If a game has a skip to the next choice function then there's no need to bother with that.

 

If there's been a meaningful length of time between me reading a route and moving on to the next one, I might go back and reread an entire common route or certain parts of it.

[Chewy]

Or save at flags of course

[AMMSY]

I've usually used the walkthrough to save at key points so that I can get back on a path as quickly as possible.  I read the text I haven't read yet then skip the rest.  No reason to reread the entire thing to get at the next path...

 

I do almost the exact thing, just the first play I go without the walk-through until I get any end. then just start over with skip and save in key choices to get where I want to be and see everything efficiently.

[Vokoca]

u mean jump to the next choice butyon?

yea that is good to have

Yeah, Grisaia has that one. Some of the Nitro+ VNs have a button that works similarly to that, but it also stops on unread text.

[InvertMouse]

If the game is super long, I will often just give up and follow a guide. Otherwise, I will save at every flag as a few others have mentioned . Read text is always a skip for me.