the story is more of a love letter and spinoff of Strugatsky's book: Roadside Picnic and the stalker games that followed. with a strickingly similar envirnoment as in the book. instead of an anomalous zone in chernobyl, in this show its some parallel type world which mimics the zone seen in Strugatsky's work. the beartraps are a direct reference to some of the anomalies seen in RP and Stalker. the setting differs in the way that most anomalies are based of inworld scary stories, takes place in japan, and in the way charactors interact with the zone. funnily enough the first guns the characters find are the sameas in the stalker games.