Been playing it for hours.
OH MY GOD this game is fucking fantastic.
You now have currency, which you use to buy medicine, armour, weaponry and all sorts of shit. You earn it from missions, looting bodies and pickpocketing people.
You literally just have to walk into them while holding A and Ezio filches about 10 florins off them. Unlimited use. I was strolling through a crowd holding A and Gentle Push, and numbers were just flying off me.
Unarmed combat is now great. Early on, the first chapter or two, is just Ezio as this rich playboy scoundrel getting into fistfights, fucking chicks and running from their fathers. Also beating the living shit out of your sister's cheating boyfriend. And a gang war.
Omagad it's so good. And that's before you even get the Assasin's robe.
Once you get it, brutality ensues. You have a Notoriety meter. The higher it is, guards are more alert. You can lower it by bribing street preachers, killing police officials and ripping down Wanted posters. You can hire hookers, thieves and mercenaries to distract or fight guards as you kill their leader or loot something.
The dialogue is hilarious. Makes it so much better. At the start, your older brother finds you after the gang fight and Ezio has a busted face. He takes him to the doctor, where he says to the doctor 'Please help him sir, his pretty face is his only asset!'
And Ezio just turns around and says 'Go fuck yourself'.
Turn subtitles on, cos all the swearing and generally funny shit is in Italian. There is a LOT of Italian in this game. Moar updates to come.