This game is a glitched mess. So many crashes, so many warping mobs, disembodied guns, etc. I was bearing with it because the setting really is astoundingly cool (I love Japantown, and the industrial park at night felt like the Midgar Upper Plate that I wish we'd gotten more of in FF7R). But after ten hours with about as many crashes, I stopped doing side content and just started beelining through the main story to get the game over with sooner. Near the end of the game now and had the game glitch out at the part where you wait for Takemura to call you (aka finish all of the main quests). I finished 'em, nothing. Tried a bunch of reloads and other fixes, nothing. Got ready to call Best Buy and find out how to get a refund when I found this:
Which solved my Takemura issue, in case anyone else has run / will run into the same problem. So the story is moving again, and I'll go ahead and do the last few missions and finish the game off. Definitely returning it like immediately after that though. Damn shame how this one turned out IMO.