Thanks for your fast reply! I rechecked it with the controller, it seems most of the things are working, instead of one thing. I know that the focus in not on gamepad, but in case you want to reproduce it, here are the steps: Start a new game, press the "start" button on the gamepad to switch to the "Menu" (or "Journal"). Using the dpad up and down now jumps to the functions that are assigned to it in the game, dpad up goes to Inventory and dpad down to Journal. Thus, no entries in the journal or the menu can be selected. I tried the analog sticks but they don't seem to work.
Thanks for the great work you did, i walked around a bit and it really seems like a great experience. I'll wait a bit before i continue, if you have the chance to look into the controller issue anytime I'd greatly appreciate it :)