About the freeze that happens right after you exit the first room with the old man.
What you need to do is this: ((Before leaving the Old Man Room to begin your journey.))
1: Examine the two Crafting Stations in the room with the old man.
2: Talk to the Old Man.
3: Interact with the orb thing in the bottom left corner of the room with the old man. It's a useless thing, just a Credits for the game, but it's interactable anyway.
4: Turn your settings to have Autorun be off.
5: Go back to the Monster Spawner Crystal in the top room and interact with it. ((The first room you see in-game.))
6: Leave the first building, and hope that it works without bugging this time.
I did all of these things, and it worked.
I assume this bug just happens when you're impatient like I was, and bum-rush to try to catch the cute fox girl, instead of actually interacting with the game itself.
Just the Autorun settings didn't work, just interacting with the Old Man didn't work, just interacting with the Crafting Stations didn't work, and I didn't bother testing just the Monster Spawner or the Credits Orb.
Game's buggy, and not ready for release yet.
Especially when the Sprint is barely faster than the Walk.
The problem is probably triggered by just not exploring everything, or just not following a VERY specific set of rules.
I got a bug that caused a Game Over because the MC died in the first fight, and the girl lived.
Just walking into the Old Man Room gave me a Game Over every time because of that.
That was AFTER winning the fight.