Dark Souls is the 2011 action RPG from FromSoftware known for punishing combat built around parries, backstabs and ripostes. This stab cue became the audio shorthand for a critical punish, shared widely in gameplay clips, montages and meme edits. Players from Dark Souls Remastered, Dark Souls 2 and Dark Souls 3 all recognize the same brutal hit, which is why creators reuse it whenever a video needs an instant sense of a costly mistake being punished.