Starts up in Chinese by default, and changing the language without being able to read Chinese isn't trivial - I clicked the top option (turns out to be new game), skipped a couple of cutscenes, pressed escape for menu, selected something that looked like options, then the fourth or fifth option down provokes a menu with sliders that looked like settings; the last option before the sliders includes "English" as its third option. After changing that I restarted the game and had a much easier time navigating things. This is from memory so may not be precisely accurate, but hopefully it helps someone.