'High Score Hyrax' is a clever, immersive, and stylized approach to the classic date-sim romance visual novel. The chip-tune sound track compliments the pixel art styled sprites and UI amazingly to create a pretty unique experience, that takes advantage of the visual novel structure of branching conversation paths. The characters are fun and relatable, and the further you get into the first date conversation, the more that's uncovered from each of the character's backstory. Early on the mechanic of 'save-scumming' is incorporated into the narrative itself, which makes for a very strong plot-device as well as just immersing yourself into the role of the protagonist for the story. Highly recommend that everyone try this cute date-sim, as its another banger by chmron.
Small spoilers for more in depth gushing and comments: I was a little bit confused cause I guess I'm good at date-sim conversations since aside from the initial turn-back, I didn't use a coin until the game had to force me to for narrative purposes, so it caught me off guard but also, I could see what it was doing, so I had fun going back and reading all the 'bad end' answers. The plot is also really well woven, with the eventual reveal of finding out your date is actually the online bully and there being multiple endings based on how well the conversation is going. The little score counter in the corner is also a neat mechanic that helps visualize the protagonist's 'confidence' (the best guess I have). Very little notes, I thoroughly enjoyed this.