The Last Samurai public and asks him to commit Seppuku to redeem his honor. Algren refuses Omura's offer to lead the new army to crush the rebels. Omura sends assassins to kill Algren, but Algren kills them. Algren assists the Samurai in freeing Katsumoto; in the process, Katsumoto's son Nobutada is mortally wounded, and he sacrifices himself to allow the others to escape. As the Imperial Army marches to crush the rebellion, a grieving Katsumoto contemplates Seppuku, but Algren convinces him to fight until the end, and joins the Samurai in battle. The Samurai use the Imperial Army's overconfidence to lure them into
Samurai Warriors 2 or perform a flaming charge, and Ginchiyo Tachibana can either increase the strength of her weapon or summon lightning to stun nearby enemy soldiers. In addition, characters movesets can evolve in a larger variety as they level up, elaborating on either their combo, charge or special attacks, with the progression of each character being different from the next. This leads to the characters having 1 of 3 different button combos. A returning element from the original "Samurai Warriors" is the Survival Mode (Infinite Castle in the Japanese version). In this mode, the player chooses a character and fights through an