What I'm dancing around saying is that Return of the Obra Dinn is a fantastic example of where writing, narrative, and storytelling are at in the modern era. Eventually, writing turned into books, which turned into films, which turned into video games, and, well, you know the rest. Once we started writing them down, things got interesting very quickly (anthropologically speaking, anyway) - it was easier to share tales, put a spin on well-known ones, and copy from other people's ideas. Instead, stories were told out loud, with metre and music, and passed down through oral tradition: Campfire stories, cautionary fables, nursery rhymes, and long, entirely-from-memory epics. We didn't actually figure out writing until relatively late, you see - and even then, we were mostly using it to take note of super boring things, like receipts and messages, rather than grand works of literature. Humanity has been telling stories for longer than we can ever know.
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