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This is the third and last Sophia Zhao game I'm playing this competition. The other two were fantastic, and this is now an author I'll keep an eye out for in the future.
This is the shortest game, and while it has a great gut-punch ending, it's the weakest of the group to me (but it has some very strong competition, so that's not saying much).
You play as someone grabbing some groceries in a store. Money's tight; I thought this was a reference to recent tariffs in the US at first, what with poor quality onions for $2.
Things descend a bit from there, and there's a lot of strong profanity (which matches the strong, bitter taste of the onion, I suppose). It's when we got to dairy that I started getting what was going on (despite strong hints earlier).
The ending was a really creative take on the event it described, I'd never seen anyone describe something like it before, so I thought that part was really neat.
The reason I think the other games are stronger is that this game was fairly one-note, while the other two Sophia Zhao games were a great study in using contrasting tones and evoking a variety of emotions.
