I really got off-put by the whole game at the beginning and just didn't want to play at all, but a lot of people have been saying this so I may check it out again. Does it get similar to Eternum's quality?
I finished playing it thru last week. It's nowhere near the same quality. If OiaLT is a good apple, Eternum is a full apple-pie if you compared it in quality and story phasing.
I did enjoy OiaLT quite a bit but it has a lot more forced slap humour weaved into it and overall a much less compelling character development and design (IMO). And that's without even considering the huuuuge step-up Eternum is model and rendering wise.
All in all, I wouldn't compare Eternum with OiaLT in any scenario. OiaLT holds it's ground very good by it's own, but it's nowhere close to Eternum in story phasing, rendering and model quality nor character development and design.