Seppuku the head could, both metaphorically and literally, rest in its owner's hands. Those who did not belong to the samurai caste were never ordered or expected to carry out seppuku. Samurai generally could carry out the act only with permission. Sometimes a "daimyō" was called upon to perform seppuku as the basis of a peace agreement. This weakened the defeated clan so that resistance effectively ceased. Toyotomi Hideyoshi used an enemy's suicide in this way on several occasions, the most dramatic of which effectively ended a dynasty of "daimyōs". When the Hōjō were defeated at Odawara in 1590, Hideyoshi insisted
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