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Vigilant Paradise Update Addresses Bugs, DifficultyAn update to Saturn homebrew FPS Vigilant Paradise addresses bugs and difficulty complaints after the game’s popularity blew up two weeks ago. Riccardo Campione released version 1.001 yesterday on his game’s Itch.io store page . It lists the following changes:
Campione apparently isn’t done, either — his update says he’s “still working on the delay on boot-up issue” and hopes to have a fix for it soon. Those who already bought Vigilant Paradise will have to go to the Itch.io store page and click on the “Download” button at the top of the page. That’ll bring you to your unique download page from which you can select version 1.001. “Thank you all for your support and patience,” he said on the page. Vigilant Paradise was released Nov. 5 and announced via a YouTube trailer that got practically no traction. It wasn’t until a person named dmar3000 stumbled upon its Itch.io store page and posted about it on Reddit on New Year’s Day that it came to the wider community’s attention. After publishing a story about Vigilant Paradise on Jan. 2, SHIRO! played it live after the SHIRO! Show later that day. Other videos followed in the next week, including a livestream from Filmcow and videos from Nai Adventure and Sega Saturn Mania BR . All that attention didn’t go unnoticed by the game’s developer, who wrote a blog on the store page Jan. 5 to address his newfound fanbase. “Thank you all for your support!” Campione said. “I just wanted to let everyone know that I’ve been reading your feedback and watching your videos. I have put my dev environment back together, and am actively looking into addressing some of the issues that have been reported with the game.” About a week and a half later, he published version 1.001. SHIRO!’s TraynoCo discovered enemies shooting at him through the hedges in mission three during his live playthrough, so that fix will be a welcome one. It’s unclear what difficulty adjustments have been made, but from a cursory playthrough of the first couple missions, the bosses seem to require fewer hits to defeat. 
Vigilant Paradise follows two playable buddy cops as they take down a terrorist cabal attacking a tropical city. Between blasting bad guys, they drop cheesy one-liners in voice-acted in-engine cutscenes over the course of six missions and a tutorial chapter. Unlike most homebrew Saturn games, Vigilant Paradise isn’t available for free. It normally costs US$10 on Itch.io . Campione implores people not to pirate it in the license text file included with the game download. “Please support indie development,” he wrote. “This game is not freeware. It was a self-funded, five-year journey of many a late night.”
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