Edit: Finished the mission today. Plus thing: Merovingian backstory, and some narrowing down on just how old the Intruder (or his knowledge) is. Negative: The Martial Artist gabbing on about levels and states. Seemed kinda fourth wall breaking, in a sense.

It didn't really break the fourth wall for me: doubtlessly, there are Redpills who were gamers before their unplugging, so they might very well describe their battle prowess in gamers' terms. And... for that matter, the Matrix probably is, to a lot of Redpills of this ilk, the penultimate computer game...

The plot twist regarding the Merovingian's past has me really curious as to what's going to happen in the next chapter, starting tomorrow....