Breath of Fire IV pt 2

Author's Note: This is being written months away from the game. Coming back I realized I never completed this. So here goes nothing.

Chambra. It's freakin' desolate. There's a bunch of workers that are trying to clean out the city from the "hex" a magical based weapon that apparently causes purple smoke. And DEATH. Or poison or something. So after some wandering around, no one wants to help you. Because they're normal freakin' people, helping complete strangers clean up their town so they can live there, and not helping 3 random dudes get through town.
The view switches to the outside of the gate, something lurking closer....
and closer.....
and closer....
and BOOM!
Enter Ershin, The asexual robot that speaks only in third person. So after persuading said robot to your cause, the rush through poison town is real. Trials and tribulations of typical JRPG fare await and you end up on the other side. Also, you're chased by a dragon, worm, wyrm thing. See what I did there?
You end up at a dam. Ryu and company cross it. Dragon is still there and breaks the dam with the party escaping just in the nick of time. There's a cutscene that involves the cliffs and seeing the dragon thing again. I don't remember why. It happens.
The next town is Kyria. It's freakin' awful. Think of the Hunger Games compared to Battle Royale. Now think of Home Alone compared to Kyria. Pits of doom, bear traps, explosives and cages. What the actual..... anyway,  super lame.
After pulling a few stints of B&E you enter the Mayor's house and get trapped in a cage where Ryu has an ever so eloquent conversation with a Parrot. Main Character? Check. Intelligence? Swing and a miss.
After said discussion, the team goes to the nearby woods to find Mr. Mayor. But, puzzles galore await. In this instance, you gotta chase a bird pig thing into the forest to find this jerk. After the arbitrary ::mic voice activated:: BOSSSSSSSS BAATTTTTLLLLEEEEE::: you go back to town, and speak with Senor Mayor. His helpful tidbit? Yeah, sure bro, there's an underground tunnel that allows you entrance to the town of Synesta.
Thanks guy....
Synesta is a lovely desert town, that has seen better days. Torn apart from war, there is now a run down orphanage being run by a nun. The kids run amok and apparently have free reign.
There's a not so optional minigame of hide and seek where you have to hunt down the little vagrants.
I may not remember as much of this story as I thought when I started this post, but you know what I do remember? These mini games SUCK. This was a huge pain in the ass.
After hunting down all the kids, you go and realize one of the little miscreants is hiding in the abandoned dungeon. After finding the dog-boy, he tells you that Nina's sister had come in to the orphanage to help. I totally forgot that the whole premise of this game started with looking for her. Because the amazing party to save the world obviously needs to be everybody's slave first. What happens next you ask?
You fight a musclehead boss. Because. BOSSSSSS BATTTTTLLLEEEEE.
After some serious pwnage you talk to a mob boss that dresses like a pirate and he sends you on grunt work. Go steal back stuff that was stolen from him, then clean up his warehouse. All while leaving poor Nina with Marlok. There's a lot to be read from the context provided here, but I'll let you figure it out on your own should you care.
I can't believe I'm still writing this. I'm definitely going to be more diligent because this is getting ridiculous.  To be continued