i’ve noticed this hitching for like 5-10 seconds at the first letter of some lines (not any specifically, just at random) on linux (both wine and native). i haven’t tested on windows, but i haven’t had this happen with any other renpy games/VNs so far. i’ve noticed that it hitches much more frequently on native than with wine.
edit: im wondering if this might be a bug specific to the version of renpy shipped with this VN. this is the newest renpy game/VN i’ve played, so it’s possible that a bug got introduced recently. ill do some testing later to see what’s up with this specifically :P