to add to this, i took my current save at this point and loaded it onto an untranslated japanese version of the game and it works just fine. i then saved the game past the part where it crashes and took that file and loaded into the patched english translated version and it loads up fine with no crash
at this point im thinking: "awesome, i can progress now" only to go to the next area, trigger a cutscene and get the same error again. it seems to happen whenever the game transitions from cutscene to gameplay and vice versa
hopefully this is helpful for
12asdasdasd34 or someone else that knows how to be able to fix it