This game is all I've been playing.

When I did the Leonardo's Flying Machine part, I was trying to control it like the cape in Super Mario World. It worked, a little, but I still had to fly over those fires.

My 'villa' is making so much money now that I've bought all the armour and most of the weapons and upgraded all the shops, that my favourite waste of money is to keep poisoning every guard I come across and buying more of it. I started just randomly throwing money around too. I think there's an achievement for it.

For a while it got on my nerves that there were some jumps that looked possible but I just narrowly missed. But then once I learned you could hold B (or Circle) to stick your arms out to grab stuff (in multiple directions), my acrobatics really opened up.

The bards are funny. I found the easiest way to get rid of them is to just 'run' into them when they get in your face. Usually they drop their lute and run away, but if I have some courtesans around me they try to fight them :P

A consistently great moment: When there are two guards guarding something I want to get to, I just walk right up to them. They go, "Hey! You're not supposed to be here!" and I go DOUBLE SHIV TO THE FACE!

Ugly, ugly characters, but otherwise great game.