I open the game with AI_en.exe (actually doesn't matter even if i do it with japanese exe), then press start inside the game, here goes some scripted crying sound along with the game's window going black and then i get another window "information" that tells me "Cannot convert the variable type {{void} to Object}" and the game crashes. I actually tried to click on other stuff, like Extra, and when i choose "Character" (let it be Chie), here comes the window "Fatal error" with the text "unknown" with another crash.
Windows11 24H2.
fun fact is this studio's next game is working perfectly, but this one just won't
here's what crash dump basically told me:
Root Cause: The game failed to load emoteplayer.dll (delay-load dependency), causing exception 0xc06d007e (DELAYLOAD_MOD_NOT_FOUND).
Game executed normally until it needed animation functions from emoteplayer.dll
Windows tried to load the DLL (delay-load mechanism) but couldn't find/access it
System raised exception → crash in KERNELBASE.dll