Interesting, good to know. Glad it's (possibly) fixed anyway.
For the other bugs, I couldn't reproduce the slime getting stuck and the shrine cutscene getting stuck. Are there any errors in the output_log.txt file? It should be in the default save directory.
Also, which settings menu are you talking about? Is it the phone menu, or the "paused" screen that pops up when you press escape? You should be able to exit both with escape.