Wait I misread the comment. Blacking out after unpausing? That never happened to me.
I think I've fixed that however, it was probably caused by the same structural issue that caused the game to crash when loading a save. Do try the newest version and see if you can replicate the issue.
Sorry I'm late! It's unbugged, turns out I wasn't that far away from the end of the game. Overall, yep, pretty awesome, and it did get me invested into who the characters are and what's happened/what'll be happening.