Yakuza 5 Crashing at Cutscenes

So despite multiple reports on ProtonDB saying everything runs with newer Proton versions, I cannot get Yakuza 5 to play the opening cutscene without the game crashing. I've tried multiple Wine-GE versions (5-23 though 5-25, and Wine GE Latest) and Proton GE versions (Proton GE 5-23 though 5-27). I'm using both a Steam Deck and a PC with Nobara 39 (Fedora based).

GE 5-23 is a minimum requirement as it has a patch specifically for cutscene audio (older versions the audio would get skipped and out of sync).
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