On my case I use wine since I also use textractor (to read japanese)
Well, to start I followed the guide that's in this sub about how to play visual novels on GNU/Linux and another one in learnjapanese .moe (I think that's the page)
After following those guides it almost worked but it did still had problems, I wrote this about a month ago on a txt:
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Solution steps:
0: Start a Wineprefix with WINEARCH32:
//WINEPREFIX=~/.testwine WINEARCH=win32 wineboot
1: Change Wine system locale to Japanese:
//WINEPREFIX=/home/cyo/.testwine LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 TZ=Asia/Tokyo winetricks --gui
2: Once started the gui you must install (Winetricks --gui):
-dxvk...
//details: 'Not supported for Wine GE 8.0' but it was installed anyway that's fine, I guess.
-dotnet35
-vcrun from 2003 to 2015
-lavfilters (including extra)
-quartz
-wmp9,wmp10
-wine gecko...?
//details: wine suggested to install it aftter wmp10, does not seem relevant but anyway..
3: After installing this I executed:
WINEPREFIX=/home/cyo/.testwine winetricks alldlls=default
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The wine/winetricks version is:
-Wine GE 8.0
-Winetricks staging
This downloaded from AUR (or chaotic AUR I think)