Returnal Deserves Better Than A $100-Plus Price Tag Share Returnal. Everything was going well. I’d cleared most of the rooms on the first floor. I’d taken very little damage, a crucial factor in Returnal: the less damage you take, the more you can increase your maximum HP from health drops. I’d gotten the upgrades I wanted. My melee attack was stronger. I’d gotten the juicy 25 per cent upgrade to health, perhaps the most valuable attribute to any Returnal run. I’d gotten some decent weaponry with some good attributes. Everything was going right. I figured, why not give the first boss a shot again? I’d already beaten the first boss, a tall, lithe alien with lasers thicker than bone. I did the math in my head: the stronger melee attack should make the first and second phases pass by relatively quickly. The extra HP should buffer me nicely for the third act, when the larger AOE attacks come up.