Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch [BLES01555]

I am aware of the cutscene issue still being a problem, I can deal with it or the desync option of using the library method so that cutscenes load, however, is the game known to be very buggy/crashy overall still? I've found that it is crashing or freezing randomly pretty often, especially in towns or in conversations.

Are there specific settings for this game that works the best? I don't mind 30 fps or 24-30 fps so long as it doesn't crash every 5-10 minutes.

I've tried playing on the latest version, which is "0.0.5-6592-a36acf49d Alpha". I just downloaded it from the website, if any of this makes any difference to the options I can try.