Playing on PC, unpatched.
Having had a rarely uneventful run through the first few days of the story, things took a massive turn for the worse.
First I bought some capsule toys and the green and red buttons in the HUD locked on after I’d finished and stayed that way for the rest of the day.
Later on I was snooping around in the drawers by the family altar when Ine-San came to pray and I got trapped in the corner. I think this may have been an issue in the original game too to be fair as one would have to be in a very specific position to replicate. Thankfully, she only prays for about 40 minutes.
Things went bad quickly after that. I put the sword in the slot in the dojo and the night time transition music started to play while the camera was locked onto the sword ( I hadn’t left the dojo).
After that, I attempted to leave the dojo and the game cut to the cutscene of Rio swearing to avenge his father in front of the sign. Visuals were fine for this scene.
Once the cutscene finished, the camera cut back to the sword while a short dialog with fukuhara took place. We practiced together (I kicked his ass) and then the game immediately cut back to the sword while Ryo filled him in on his investigation so far.
After Ine-San revealed herself, I was transported into the house. Here my screen was black in the lower two thirds with a dark blue at the top of the screen. If I had to guess, it was the sky.
The scene played out with this on screen and then I was sent to Ryo's bedroom with the time now being 11:30. It was around 7:30 when the first cutscene triggered (maybe this time skip happened in the original - I can’t remember).
I slept and the alarm clock / wake up cutscene was just a white screen.
I really can’t understand how the game was released like this, nor how they managed to create so many issues while porting it.
Edit: Just remembered; the scene with the restaurant worker near the drinks machine triggered two days in a row (again, possibly present in the original, I can’t remember). This time I declined to buy him a drink (fool me once...). The subtitles at the bottom were messed up for the end of the conversation (something like ‘I’ I’ll see you later’ - but I hit B rather quickly and so only caught a glimpse of it). This was with the JP dub and English subs.
