Being an action horror game, though, Onechanbara brought to mind one of the great horror writers of the 20th century, H.P. Lovecraft, and the group of writers that followed. In "The Salem Horror", Henry Kuttner tells of an Old One that is described as "the Thing that should not be." Certainly in the world of games, Onechanbara approaches that same level of description as "the game that should not be."
