King's Field is FromSoftware's early first-person dungeon crawling series, a direct forerunner of the studio's later Souls games, where slow exploration, traps, and unforgiving combat made death a constant companion. The scream captures that harsh tone in just over a second, which is why Souls-like players and retro gaming creators still reuse it as shorthand for a sudden, avoidable death. Its short length also makes it easy to drop into edits without breaking the pace of a video.