#Animations #Bug #Freezing #Solution
Okay, success!
(Insofar as testing the opening sequence and to the first bedroom scene. With these positive signs as an indicator here's hoping there's no further issues with animations or the game freezing here on out.)
A little while ago, I got back home and started to mess around with the game and see if I can't get around these freezing bugs and the animations not working during scenes. I was looking at the registry keys even! Anyway, with your valuable input, I tried using various older versions of the node-webkits concentrating on the SDKs on fresh extracts of the game. I kept running into the same issues as before.
However, I finally got the game to work when I started a new set of tests on a
different drive starting with v0.48.4 of the NW.js SDK. And lo and behold it worked right off the bat on the first try of what I thought would be a second series of tests! I don't know why that made it work, to be honest, but I'll take it. I followed the instructions from one of the replies in that Reddit post, shortened the game's pathway directory (knowing that sometimes long pathnames can cause problems) on an external drive, used the replacement files, and renamed the executable. I don't know if it was because I'm using a laptop or what, but the two key things I've changed since first trying to get things to work the other day was placing the game onto an external drive and shortening the associated directory.
Thanks for the help!

To reiterate,
GammaReborn's
post from the start of the year was instrumental to resolving freezing bugs and problems with the game's animation. Hope that helps others that have run into these issues as well! Cheers!