Chrono Trigger 5 - Mindless Mountain Climbing

Well, my boyfriend no longer has immediate access to the internet with a malfunction of his laptop charge plug, but he's still updating on paper until things are sorted out, so I'll follow suit, I suppose, in the same way I always have been.
Your prayers, please, not just in the case of his laptop, but as he travels tomorrow.

Anyway, hour five.
Y'know how I said that things were calming down a tad in Chrono Trigger? Well, that certainly didn't last long. An extreme source of evil in the form of a creature named Magus is responsible for unleashing that lava monster upon the world and allowing it to spiral into chaos, and so our team travels back in time once more to the Middle Ages to seek this Magus character out and rid the world of him before he wreaks havoc.

This little hour of the game was perhaps my absolute favorite so far. First of all, it had the slightest of Lord of the Rings essence. There's this epic battle on a bridge between small continents, between 'fiends' and humans, and with human defenses hardly sufficient to hold the enemy back, it's up to my team to help out. Doesn't seem very LotR-esque, I know, but it is, trust me. It's more of a slightly brother-to-brother love moment that makes it seem that way.
Regardless, after plowing my way across the bridge, keeping the enemy at bay and running off one of Magus' generals, he sends out a tough little creature named Zombor, or 'Junk Dragger' in Japanese.

Zombor looks a little something like this:

Intimidating? Yes, I think I would agree. Fighting this guy was my favorite battle in the game up to this point. He's rather tough, but not tough to the point of where I lose my cool in trying to heal my team and fight him at the same time. But man, he was a challenge, and he was pieced together in two parts. Certain types of magic healed his top or bottom half, while others took a nice amount of damage, but I had to find all of this out in the midst of him chipping away at my team's HP. It was difficult, and I'm honestly surprised that I succeeded in defeating him in one try, but it was worth it. It put a real smile on my face to have completed such a feat. I hope to come across something similar to him in the future, as I love games that require quick and efficient battle technique.

Anyway, after defeating Zombor, I reached the southern continent, where apparently this Hero resides, and is here to save everyone. I am currently trying to find him, at least...I think I am. I'm just wandering around in the vast landscape of a mountain at this point. I wonder where it'll take me.
At this point, I'll stop posting links to my boyfriend's blog, at least until he is able to get online, but keep an eye out for when he is able to update again.

- Cheryl-Buddy