SEIFER:
My family is obsessed with Star Wars. I had to strike that word because we are no longer worthy of it. You, my friend, are far more Star Wars geek than we shall ever be.

The reason so many things in the Fantasy-verse seem to possess elements of Star Wars is because of the sheer amount of familiar elements used in Star Wars from other media. The game/manga/anime/comic/movie that I'm working on is loosely based on Kingdom Hearts and BLEACH. Yet you would most likely say the entire thing was somehow inspired by Star Wars. Let's face it. You're giving an awful lot of credit to Star Wars and George Lucas in general, whether seriously or sarcastically. GL was not the progenitor of Space sagas nor even science fiction nor the myriad of tropes and plot elements found within his films. A midget named C4 isn't instantly a reference to R2D2 though I'm sure a lot of people would make that comparison if he waddled like the astrodroid. Practically every villain in the Final Fantasy franchise is supposedly inspired by Darth Vader because their wearing spooky masks and caped armor. But that's simply because most of them are based in worlds built to resemble the British region and the medieval period. Hell, if Darth Vader is a riff on the dark knight character.