Agent HK47
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There is a difference between:Duuude..... a male MC living in a house with 3 female relatives/room mates (always a MILF and 2 sister types) is hardly an original idea. There are probably 50 games on here like that from straight up grinders like Man of the House and View of Family to story driven ones like Sins of the Father or even Where the Heart Is.
Chill.
1 guy, living in a house with 1 mother & 2 sisters/landlady & 2 roommates
vs
1 guy, looking the EXACT same as a character from another game, living in the EXACT same house, with the EXACT same mother - with the exception of her name, cause the dev was creative enough to put an entire "e" at the end of the name, so instead of "Ann" she is now "Anne" - with the EXACT same 2 sisters, looking and dressing the same, and having identical names to their counterparts, with the exception of 1 letter change in one of the names (Liza instead of Lisa. Man, the creativity is amazing!)
As an example from hollywood. Which movie concept would you say is more original:
"Amazing spy is hunted by evil organisation, but manages to defeat them and probably save the world". We have quite a few of those: James Bond, Jason Bourne, John Wick, Taken, Mission Impossible, Austin Powers, just to name a few.
vs
Movie about a secret agent called "Jamie B0nd" (notice the numerical "0" instead of a regular "o". I am often amazed by my own genius), with the codename 0007, working for a secret intelligence named "MI66", with a nice secretary named "Monique Penn" who has a crush on our 0007, and a boss named "W" (again, notice the upside down "M", damn, I should be making movies!) and getting supplied with experimental weapons/equipment by an excentric inventor named "Queue"
There is a big difference between using a tried-and-tested setup, IE the "Secret agent vs evil organisation" or "Young man living with mother and 2 sisters" vs basically copying an entire existing thing and just changing small pieces here and there. Getting inspired by something is great. Completely ripping it off isn't. At least not in my book.