Fought my way through the remaining battles and faced off against the 'Icicle Golem'; a fairly generic (and easy-peachy) boss. This is where you acquire Peach and she's pretty good, with lots of HP and AoE heal on throws, plus a shotgun.

After this I backtracked to find the chests I was missing which took up probably a third of my session. I also took it upon myself to not upgrade any character's weapons for the challenges too mostly successful results. Admittedly, I seemingly got lucky on 'Chomp Alley' as all the chain chomps glitched and didn't attack making for a very easy escort.

At Spooky Trails now which is where I dropped the game last time. How will things turn out this time...?