Seppuku out seppuku. Later, disgraced warriors were sometimes allowed to carry out seppuku rather than be executed in the normal manner. The most common form of seppuku for men was composed of the cutting of the abdomen, and when the samurai was finished, he stretched out his neck for an assistant to sever his spinal cord by cutting halfway into the neck. Since the main point of the act was to restore or protect one's honor as a warrior, the condemned should not be decapitated completely; instead left with a small part of the throat or neck still attached. This way
Samurai Warriors and weapons and successfully creating new characters. A port to the PlayStation Portable, called "Samurai Warriors: State of War", was released in Japan on December 8, 2005 and March 7, 2006 in North America. It has a number of additional multiplayer features. This is a slot machine based game featuring Yukimura Sanada, Hanzo Hattori and Keiji Maeda as playable characters with their own stories using character models from "Samurai Warriors". Nōhime, Masamune Date and Hideyoshi Toyotomi are included as normal bosses, while Oda Nobunaga is a special boss. Other characters who make non-playable appearances are Kunoichi, Shingen Takeda, Okuni and