User blog comment:Lord Loss/Discussion of the Week: Bows/@comment-74.120.190.101-20121219142325/@comment-5020152-20121220211426

I'd say that MH3U is more like MHP3 than MH3 because all of the monsters keep their attack animations from MHP3 (for example, Gigginox no longer has the toxic body slam, but a poison-gas-spreading attack).