Apparently, the 12th century Crusades led by Richard the Lionheart wound up causing a big event called the Disruption, which unleashed horrible evil things into the world. You play in an alternate reality version of the 16th century, which starts out fine but quickly goes from quirky to lame.

For example, at one point you meet Cervantes, the guy who wrote Don Quixote, perhaps the most important book written in Spanish. The man was a mega-genius, satirist and poet. In Lionheart he runs around stabbing at bushes and raving about “La bestia!” Guess him and his famous confused character merged into a Brundlefly. You meet Leonardo Da Vinci, The Renaissance Man himself, but here he goes by Leo and has nothing to say other than the usual semi-funny/sarcastic crap reserved for smartass NPCs. Then you meet Shakespeare, who refers to Shylock as “That pestilence from Jerusalem” and tells you to go rough him up. You know, the guy wrote more plays than just The Merchant of Venice.