First of all, I'm really glad I saw that exchange on this page about just needing to be patient for the game to load from black screen on launch, since otherwise I probably would have figured I just messed something up with the install process (very possible, to be fair!). Thanks to everyone involved in that!
I do have another issue / question though, which I didn't find after a couple key-word searches in the thread, so apologies if it's already been addressed. Does anyone have issues with / tips on resolving the music being 'choppy'? It's not even *all* the music; it started out very much that way, but when I got from the city to outside the house, the track the game switched to then played totally normally. As soon as I entered dream-world though, that track went right back to choppy.
I have a vague recollection of having had this same sort of seemingly random issue with some other RPGM maker game, so I'm kind of afraid that it's somehow me-specific, but figured it wouldn't hurt to ask on the off chance it was a known / solved issue.
Edit:
Yeah, just discovered that the music seems to play totally fine if I play it through my speakers rather than my headphones, so definitely something unique to my set-up. Gonna leave this post here anyway on the off chance I get help, but sounds like more a tech-support thing than a porn website thing, hah.