Was this game inspired by Samurai Jack in any way?

[The Comedian]

This could be a stretch, but bear with me.

1. I'm no artist, but I think there are similarities in art direction, it's the first thing I noticed. The particular way foliage looks, rays of light, minimalism you see here and there in season 5 of the show and a large part of this game. Although, the last one, I think the bigger inspiration is Worldless, since studios have familial ties to each other (that game also has similar fog and mirrors you see in the Winter chapter).
   
2. Structure. Four chapters named after four seasons, just like S4E10 "Four Seasons of Death"
   
3. Villain is a humanoid shapeshifting black goo monster like Aku, and moves similar to him
   
4. Development must have started around the time Season 5 was released (1.5 years before Gris came out, they were probably prototyping this game at that point)
   
5. In one of the episodes Jack has a white wolf companion (this one's definitely a stretch, too generic)

What do you guys think?

[Athena]

I think it's certainly possible. You make a fair amount correlations between these two products. I've never seen Samurai Jack, so I can only tell by what my quick googling gave me.