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 2 mixed to negative. GameRankings and Metacritic gave it a score of 62% and 58 out of 100 for the PlayStation 2 version; 56% and 52 out of 100 for the Xbox 360 version; and 49% and 43 out of 100 for the PC version. The only positive review came from "Famitsu", which gave the PS2 version a score of 36 out of 40. "Empires" was met with a little more mixed reception than the original "Samurai Warriors 2". GameRankings and Metacritic gave it a score of 57% and 55 out of 100 for the PS2 version, and 55% and 53