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Holy shit. I absolutely adore this game. I love the original play, and this adaptation of it is fantastic. I love the lean into dysfunctional homes and family dynamics, which makes it feel like a proper modern adaptation the way technology or modern references never could. I adored Antigone's final conversation with Ismene that re-framed Antigone's anger toward her as a desperate hope that at least one would escape; I've always strangely liked Ismene, so it was gratifying to see. Antigone getting a final conversation with Haimon where she tells him she knows this'll kill him, but that it simply isn't enough to stop her was amazing. I loved the writing on the wall functioning as a kind of Greek chorus. I love Eurydice coming on stage at the end as the final messenger, the way it was used to highlight both her non-existent role in the original play as well as the inaction of the general populace of Thebes. I love the basement as a modern equivalent for the symbolic hand of dirt Antigone used in the play; not a proper burial, prevented from giving one, but a burial nonetheless. The one aspect of the play this retelling doesn't really cover is Creon's side, the conflict of a ruler, but that's understandable considering how difficult it is to translate that to a modern retelling, and I think his role worked well in this story. I also love how Antigone starts out describing what is behind the doors, before switching to 'don't care' as she drags her brother's corpse and gets closer to the basement.