I performed a manual save before the escape battle to rescue Lucia and now game crashes each time I try to load from it.

My save fails on an Intel  and AMD computer.

Is anyone else experiencing this issue?

Save crashing at that specific spot has been reported a few times. As a temporary fix, I've implemented an option at the beginning of the game to "start at Part II" which is pretty much at that exact spot with everything up until then unlocked. Please try that until I can patch this out.

Thank you so much and the game is amazing!