Psycho-Sleuth: Softlocked at Initial Argument in Chapter 1 (Fix)

The problem

When Hyper first arrives and he accuses Lyle of being the Werewolf, the game softlocks at the transition into the illusory courtroom. Dialogue never appears, but the music is playing and the characters animate like usual. I have to ALT+F4 to exit the game and cannot proceed, which is a bummer because I really wanted to see the changes from the demo and don't want to skip the chapter :(

What players suggest

I had the same bug also, all I did to fix it is to change the game from full screen to windowed mode and lower the resolution size.

Update: Skipped to the Chapter 2 trial out of desperation. The same bug occurred. Can't play the game. :(

I had the same bug also, all I did to fix it is to change the game from full screen to windowed mode and lower the resolution size.

Unfortunately neither of those fixes worked for me :(