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Exactly, you said it all.Yeah sure, I never said it's a directly copycat - it has some original touch to it. But even you agreed that it's definitely inspired by Eternum. And I'm not saying that Eternum holds a patent or license of originality - based on your logic then nothing is ever original in this world.
However, if this dev ever took inspiration from Eternum (which I am sure as hell that he did), some credits would have been nice, and moreover, more twists. Once is fine, twice is fine, but multiple occurrences? I don't know, fam. We take inspirations from many things, sure - but we always end up adding twists and what we come up with is usually never close to what we thought of initially, which is based on the inspiration. It's like Eternum is the first one that introduces neuro-chip, Chop-Chop, or even a redhead nanny - but if you put all of those together in a guessing game, most people would be able to guess it's Eternum.
It seems that he got the main idea from Eternum with some funny elements (like Trader Lee), and tried his own twists to it but you can clearly see the line between the inspiration part and the parts where he wrote himself.
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To say that Eternum was not an inspiration for his game would be a lie.
There is nothing wrong with taking inspiration from other games to make your own game, but the majority of the content, be it story, plot or minor elements must be the author's ideas, not inspiration.
There are far too many elements that resemble Eternum for it not to be seen as a clear inspiration.
But the game would still have to have its own identity and different elements from Eternum and its other sources of inspiration to create the identity to its game, otherwise one could simply say that it is a copy-paste or plagiarism.