It's not a new genre,it's like Shenmue in a way that it's just an evolved form of point click adventure games.
Both also heavily used QTE. Infact while Shenmue didn't invent QTE it wasn't until that game that David cage and his games and GOW and RE4 and others started using it again as a common thing.
Yu tried to call it a new Genre as "F.R.E.E." (Full Reactive Eyes Entertainment)
Shenmue was released at the wrong time. HR was released with great timing when there was a much more heavy demand for these types of story based games.







