User blog comment:Plexioth- xD/Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate/@comment-184.38.5.102-20130103172430/@comment-189.186.155.166-20130105011553

You all are thinking too much into it. MH is an Action/RPG period. It's defined as an Action game in that you perform violence by specifically commanding it in real time and it's defined  as a Role Playing game in that you play the role of an evergrowing character in an evergrowing simulated world. To say otherwise is to lack a basic understanding of genres and why are they important. It's not about drawing analogies between games, it's about extracting shared traits between games even if the application is not the same.

In this sense, MH shares some of it's RPG elements whit Harvest Moon, both are gear oriented RPG's with heavy emphasis on finding a niche play style. Those games share one genre even if the shared trait is not so obvious.