Bro, what is wrong with this game?
I'm at the point where you unlock the Rao farm, which is, eh, but I get to the second zone and there's just the barns, nothing else. "I guess it's not finished yet", I think to myself, then I go to the office and apparently I cleared it already, like ???, but OK, the dialogue continues... except it doesn't and it locks 100% when Laki dude gets angry and says "Otherwise, he gets it". Once again, I think maybe it's not finished, but then there are all those missing scenes, so I download a save (I assume you'd share a 100% save, but that wasn't quite it) and I don't get anything new in the gallery except that... the story is progressed even further and there's another "free roam" location on the map and another, what I assume, "main quest" location?
But I can't get past the aforementioned dialogue, I have locale set to Japanese and all that shit, so I remove Beinx (or whatever it was called), because I've seen it mention locking up dialogues. It works and now I even get bandits in the second zone of Rao farm. I get the gallery entries and go to sleep, because that was yesterday. Today I load the same save as I used to unlock those Rao farm specific gallery entries and... THE BANDITS ARE AGAIN GONE, because, fuck if I know, I guess Windows update installed some small .NET framerwork update? Scratch that last part, apparently just having everything set to Japanese isn't enough and I still needed to use AppLocale to launch the game to make the bandits appear. Dialogues are still fucked though and I'm completely out of ideas.
I'm not sure if I'm more amazed at the fact this game boots up with just the first archive in the OP and doesn't even throw any errors or crashes at any point, or that it boots up at all, because it's seemingly broken with accordance of Moon phases or alignment of planets.
Can anyone give me robust instructions on how to make this programming abomination work properly? And for the record, I just deleted all files except the save folder and made a clean install.