Glad to hear you enjoyed it! And yes, I also think the defensive battle is more interesting than the attack variant, it annoyed me tbh. But it's the nature of waiting for the attack, I wanted to feel the space and create antecipation for the battle to come and it allowed me to fill it with more scenes. I might go back to the attack variant eventually and add a few more things one day.
Try the same fix, deleting all the saves and starting a new game. I need to figure out what's causing these corruptions of save files. Either its an issue from the save files being too big, or the only other thing I can think of, it's being caused by the scene gallery. Have you used the scene gallery by any chance?
Kyo's should always be unlocked since it's not a canon outfit. Catherine's vampire slave outfit you get by romancing Evelyn.
No there's a lot more. Strange... Unless theres an event in one of the unlocked areas somewhere that you missed (its there but theres no new tag on the location), something weird might have happened to your save. I don't think that's the case, but try visiting places that are available even if there's no event there. If all that fails, I suppose the only thing you can do is try the fix I outlined above. Deleting the save files and starting a new game from start. But do let me know if you get stuck in the same place again, there's no bug preventing the story from progressing there that I know of, but there's always that tiny chance that did a one of a kind run and found something everyone else missed.
I mean, it's in the title. It's a rise not a fall.
