http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33193
--- Comment #14 from Damian Senn damian.senn@gmail.com 2013-03-13 15:18:16 CDT --- (In reply to comment #13)
It's essentially a font issue. The game expects "arial.ttf" to exist in "c:\windows\fonts". If you already have that somewhere else on your system just creating a symlink seems to work fine, otherwise perhaps installing the MS corefonts in the prefix may help. Aside from "arial.ttf" I've also seen the game look for "courbd.ttf". That one doesn't seem to be required for the Level Up animation, but it might be needed at some later stage in the game.
Wow thanks, a `winetricks corefonts` seems to do the trick :D