Knowing that Romulus is set post-Alien, and delivering on ideas/concepts from the prequels (or so Dane Hallett and Perfect Organism Podcast have alluded to), has my level of excitement growing even more with every bit of Romulus news that's released, honestly. I'm so glad that elements of prequels are not going to be limited solely to the pre-Alien films on-screen. I think post-Alien 3 is still probably the most "open" era to be playing around in, but there's also a pretty significant amount of wiggle room pre-Aliens to do something interesting that is totally Ripley-adjacent (no connection to Ellen or Amanda here, please and thank you), I feel.
I think the itch to revisit Alien: Isolation is creeping up now... I've actually only played the game in full once, but the shared general timeframe between that game and Romulus and the overlap in aesthetic influences between the two has definitely been putting me in the mood again.
