Sorry to hear you had crashes, but I'm glad you were able to get through and enjoyed the game! As far as I can tell, the crashes have something to do with the Rakugo addon that I was using. I think maybe I had so many things loaded that sometimes it just gave up lol.
I didn't get to debugging save/load because it's not really necessary for this game, but that's good to know that it wasn't working out of the box.