I had this happen to me recently where after the first fight of chapter 4 if you run into the next area the game doesn't load properly and softlocks. This happened to me 3 times today, then I tried walking into it and it was fine, then loaded it again and ran in and it soft locked again. Wondering if this happened to anyone else in the past.

ROFL, this is a new one. I have seen the game break in a variety of crazy ways but I haven't seen or heard of anyone softlocking the game in the 2 or so years that this speedrun has existed.