User blog comment:Plexioth- xD/Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate/@comment-70.181.10.50-20130202030909/@comment-3426677-20130202233949

No, you cannot play the game in the gamepad screen alone. The gamepad touchscreen is the exact same thing as the bottom screen on the 3DS version. Using anything on the touchscreen is entirely optional...which now that I think about it, out of the 300 hours I managed to squeeze out of 3G, I probably used the touchscreen for like 20 minutes since I never saw any real benefit from it. If you're using CCP or WiiU Pro the only purpose of the WiiU pad is to log in on the console, lol.