Gotten through the first couple of assassinations, and the "repetitive" complaints are pretty accurate. There's any number of ways you can go about doing the actual assassination, but getting to that point involves doing the same sort of missions (hitman, pickpocket, interrogation). Plus, if you want to maximize your life, you'll want to do every last one of the missions. It's still not bacd, and the climbing around is fun as hell as are the counters (the short swords has some of my favorites) but so far it's not quite all that I had hoped. I'm still trying to figure out how the frame story is going to work itself out. I know how I want it to go, but I guess I'll have to wait and see.