Board Thread:Dark Souls II/@comment-5264386-20130708015351/@comment-5632187-20131023040703

Well you clearly didn't play Demon's Souls then. It was even more brutal than this system. Die in soul form and you're at 50 percent HP unless you have a certain ring on that boosts it to 75 percent. In other words, if you wanted all your HP, you needed to put yourself at risk of invasion.