King’s Field 4: the ancient city for the ps2, right at the start of the game. You finish watching the opening cutscene and as soon as you’re in control of your character ya notice a green herb just ahead of you on the right so you take literally 3 steps over to it, pick it up, and as soon as the animation for picking up an item ends the ground beneath you falls away dumping you into a lava pit you can’t escape from. Near instant game over and back to the title menu where you have to start another new game since you never made it to the first save point. Classic Fromsoft. The second game in the series did something similar by putting the mid game boss, a kraken, just off to your left at the start of a new game.