I try to play with a more realistic approach, but I'm not hardcore about it. I like the gameply aspects too, like time compression, and being able to pop up with the camera to have a look at your victims while you are heading for deep water. Taking a more "real-life" approach to gameplay makes the history come more alive as I follow in the wake of O'Kane, Fluckey, and company.
When you spend a long time getting into position, launch your torps and they explode prematurely halfway to the target, you feel the some of the same frustration the real skippers felt. When you miss, you feel the same letdown they did. When the DDs are headed your way with bones in their teeth you get a taste of that same tension the real sub crews felt. And when you finally sink that maru, you get the same sense of accomplishment.
That's the whole beauty of the SH series, they suck you in and put you in the shoes of the real life skippers. To play in "arcade-style" or other ways isn't wrong, but it can cause you to miss out on that more satisfying, historical experience.
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Friends, when once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance will both come too late to save his honor and his reason.
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