I really enjoy your novelization. You did describe the game's hopelessness feeling, and not only narrated going from A trough B, do this, now do that. A good novelization describe objects, situations and feelings as if no one had played the game and in some of these aspects, your story is flawed. Cliffhangers were good and I was hoping for some epilogue, some "closure" for us, so to speak.

James, you didn't leave an email address for me, and you posted as a guest, so the only way I can respond to you is through these reviews. Yes, you can give this story to them as a running series (with obvious edits for content, language, certain scenes, etc.), just make sure to give me credit for being the writer. Any further questions, send me a PM (while logged in).

Hey mate, love your story. i just have a question for you. i hope to take your story (and with a little changes, like swears) and give it to the school paper as a running series. If you say yes, email me.

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Just finished the story, a few spelling mistakes and problems with pacing and scene discription, but I enjoyed it. Great take on everything!
~TheKillerProductionz / TK

Thank you for taking the time to write this, it's brilliantly done. I like that you weren't entirely faithful to how the game played out, because this led to some fitting changes and a few surprising scenes.

One of my favorite changes is how Ripley jams the maintenance jack into the creature's mouth as it's about to kill her, that's freaking hilarious. Every time I die in this game now I fantasize about doing the same thing.

I also like that she calls out to Samuels instead of just watching him walk away, that fixes what I consider to be a problem in the game. Good call.

Another change I like is that Ripley loses the flamethrower early on. This makes sense, and it's also highly unlikely that random corpses would have flamethrower fuel. Although I'm not complaining about this in the game, it would suck if there were no refills, and even Nightmare Mode isn't that cruel :)

Something else I enjoyed was Ripley getting pissed off at the men around her either attacking her or letting her do all the work.

Another good change was that Ripley did damage the creature over time. It can be frustrating when you throw pipe bombs and Molotov cocktails at the alien in the game and you even see his acid blood spraying everywhere, but he isn't damaged in the slightest. I think it was a good change in the story to leave those weapons out, but not leave Ripley entirely defenseless. It helped make the story more terrifying, much like the game.

The way you write the characters also helped make them more three dimensional. I liked how we see Verlaine has a mischievous side to her, and we also get to see Ripley interact with the thugs on the station. You obviously put a lot of time and love into writing this, and it shows. Thank you for sharing it with us.

Great story! :)

Aww that poor man! :( and then suspense at the end! You're really good at cliffhangersn

This part was always so sad :(

I always hated the androids though hey wrrengood anysgonist

That was a great chapter but we all know the xenomorph will be back!

I hated marshal

Oh man the cliffhangers!

I'm glad you made this releastic with her changing her clothes and taking a shower! :)

Another intense chapter!