Thread:ComicReadingGamer/@comment-5688420-20180115062002/@comment-5688420-20180119141702

If you do manage to create something that nails the feel of an older work, but on a different medium, it's considered a "Spiritual Licensee" instead. For example: Metroid is considered by some fans (including the AVGN, as stated in his Alien³ review)  to be a spiritual licensee to the Alien films, both of them involving a bunch of humans fighting aliens of some sort.