Thank you so so much for playing and for the thourough feedback!! I'm especially honored you enjoyed the art :'D
The issue with the scene select and black screen definitely has to be a bug, so I'll look into it and fix it as soon as I can. The eventing of the scene select is an absolute nightmare that I finished at like 9am with no sleep, so I'm not surprised it still breaks at some points... If it keeps happening the best option might be to restart from the beginning for now. I'll consider removing the pauses in the future too if I can't figure out a way to make a more efficient skip option!
EDIT: I've updated the game with a hopefully fixed scene select menu! I recommend making a new save to avoid any conflicts, but if I didn't miss anything it should be working better now!