Ah come on, a supply sergeant and an IJN sub aren't nearly the same thing
Why not take a bit of a different spin on things, and rather than making the game a purely action title have it focused more on espionage and hit-and-run ops? Subs certainly lend themselves to the genre, and it would match more how the IJN used their subs. For example, have a mission where you have to participate in the sub raids on Sydney and try to make it out alive, carry out pre-invasion intelligence gathering operations on American territory in the Aleutians, carry a VIP like Subhas Chandra Bose to Japan while dodging anti-sub patrols, or avoid detection across the Pacific and dodge minefields to make a hit-and-run attack on Fort Stevens? Or...
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Several ships were torpedoed within sight of West Coast Californian cities such as Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Diego, and Santa Monica. During 1941 and 1942, more than 10 Japanese submarines operated in the West Coast, Alaska, and Baja California. They attacked American, Canadian, and Mexican ships, successfully sinking over 10 vessels including the Soviet Navy submarine L-16 on October 11, 1942.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americ...ine_operations
Include something like that?
Plenty of room there for some tense gameplay, just of a different kind than all-guns-blazing.