Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-26138409-20160306224346/@comment-6697950-20200315220914

Reminder that they explained this all the way back in episode 1, where Klein got rammed in the genitals and acted as if he was in great pain... until he was reminded that he doesn't actually feel any pain. Just the expectation that it's going to hurt makes the sensation seem worse than it actually is. HP has nothing to do with it - just feeling something happening to your body and seeing the context where the sensation is coming from makes the sensation seem more alarming than it really is. In The Seed based games, pain is felt like numbing or pressure, not actual pain. Regardless of how much HP the player loses.