Game freezes in Mission 12 (Yamato)

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Hey all,

Has anyone else gotten this issue?

I'm in Mission 12, playing as Dante, shortly after receiving the Cavaliere (Motorcycle sword-thing). Just after the portion of the level where you fill up the four pools of blood to have the statue open up to reveal a hidden door, there is a checkpoint while hopping up some rocks with water flowing over them. This checkpoint essentially freezes the game.

The nature of the freeze: audio continues playing (water effects, music), the save icon is animated, and it seems that a layer of the game's post-effects are active. But Dante is frozen and no button presses are being registered.

Any ideas on what I might do to solve this issue? Would restarting the level before I hit this checkpoint the next time help? I really don't want to have to restart the whole game for this

Thanks for the help everyone!

[Sharp Dressed]

I've got my loading fixed by verifying game files...it's so strange, cause i've done clean and my 1th install of the Game, and verification discovered corrupted file...and of course, that file was the whole game itself)). So...be ready to download another 30 gigs, but it should* fix this problem...at least for me - it did (but after that place, every cutscene got crazy desynching...but before, no problems on that part. Another problem comed my way).