it did hinder further gameplay yes. I see that you've further checked it. I also found an issue when occasionally giving the empress her tribute that it'll spout out a hand full of errors.
It doesn't hinder gameplay, and occasionally repeats with no issue as far as I can tell.
restarting from 1.1 I'm still in the main village, will post on whether or not the error exists in 1.1.
Sidenote: is there supposed to be more pictures of the fat woman by wakutama pond when you feed her? I only get the one where she takes off her clothes when you give her enough food/drink.
