https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10352
--- Comment #25 from Diogo Pereira sir.suriv+wine@gmail.com --- (In reply to Ken Sharp from comment #24)
Please retry in Wine 3.9 or later.
This issue is still present in 3.9 (and additionally, it now crashes before the main menu, which did not happen in 2.0.3).
(In reply to Maik Wagner from comment #23)
winetricks corefonts does work around this issue in 1.7.50
Is that still true also?
Yes, installing corefonts makes the text appear in the loading bar before the main menu (and presumably in the rest of the game, but it crashes right after that).