Individual routes having bearing on main story: significant or not?

[kaisoserranon]

I find that annoying though. It’s like… sometimes I only want to read one route. Having a route that both stands on it’s own is much better. I only read one route of F/SN (the Sakura one) and if it wasn’t for my prior knowledge of the franchise, I’d have been completely lost at points.

…How did you skip to Heaven’s Feel? The route is literally locked until you complete the first two, and for good reason.

Having to go through a bunch of sub-par routes before it is just a pain.

See, my notion of a good VN is one where there are no “sub-par” routes, haha.