I have a weird bug at the very beginning of the game, right during the tutorial in the sewers. As soon as they start talking about S-Crafts, you fight three monsters. Attacking one with an S-Craft results in the monster dying, but the animation freezing, which results in locking up the entire game and making it unplayable. The only thing I can do is speed up the animation, but that does nothing. There is no way to pass this either. Regular attacks and arts result in the same thing, frozen animations.

I've tried several difference settings, checked and unchecked different boxes, you name it. I've even tried DX8 on default settings and DX9 on default settings. I disabled vertex shading. I disabled v-sync. I've done a lot, yet the bug still exists and it makes the game unplayable.

Let me provide more insight on this. After I attack the enemy, the battle freezes. Instead of going to the next turn, it just stops right there and nothing happens. The next action never loads up. It also does not load an art when used, it just stays stuck in the magical energy field pose.