Do you think Watermelon Games will ever release Paprium?

If you want the full story, make sure you check out What Happened to Paprium, a 3 part documentary by St1ka.

I was one of the devs of Pier Solar and have to correct a few things.

I actually did some writing work for WaterMelon back in 2013. At that point, the main thing they were focused on was an update of a Japanese mech/tactical RPG called Vixen 357. They were going to overhaul the whole thing and even add online play with some special dongle as I recall. Papirum was in its infancy and still called Project Y at that point. I was supposed to work on that as well, but it never materialized. Gwenael (Fonzie as he is known) was always cool with me, and seemed like a good guy as I got to know him a bit. I know he had issues (even back then) with getting pixel artists who could work on that (large) scale....as that skill set has kind of fallen by the wayside. My guess is his (over) ambition got the best of him here....and I'd still like to know what happened with the Vixen 357 project as I did some quality work on that, I thought.

You’re better off giving your money to the son of the deposed king of Nigeria. He emailed me directly!!

The trailer makes it look like a Neo Geo game! 😳

It's really sad what's going on with Watermelon, because Pier Solar was a good game. Not the best RPG, but a solid game, and if you can get a copy it's worth your time. But the Watermelon that made Pier Solar good basically ceased to exist when Tulio Adriano left the company. The guy was not only director, but also the best PR person they had and his hands were pretty full all the time. Now the company is in the hands of someone who not only refuses to do any PR, but is basically in denial of how a video game company is supposed to run, let alone an indie company.

I'm still waiting for my NTSC copy of Pier Solar for the Dreamcast that I paid for back in April of 2017!!!!!!!!

Paprium sounds like a cream you use for diaper rash.

Guys... Watermelon don't have any money left. The game's development barely started. Most of the developers left the team. The insanely overambitious ideas of its director are basically impossible to achieve on anything less than a NeoGeo. Paprium is not going to happen. Full stop.

I regretfully funded Mighty #9 and Paprium. I hope to God Shenmue 3 delivers. But, I'm probably not going to fund anymore kickstarters from now on.😆 You just can't trust people anymore nowadays. Its sad. Thanks for covering the story Pat!👍 We need more media coverage on this type of crowd-funding abuse. Its not right at all to scam/deceive people out of their hard earned money. They need to be exposed and held accountable.

I gave up on this game a LOOOOOOONG time ago.

Funny watching this in 2021, now that the game has been released and is arguably the very best beatemup on the Genesis......

I haven’t even heard of this until now...kinda glad tbh because I would have thrown my wallet at this preorder

I'm just wakin up, I almost did a spit take for how casually Ian says "So, there was no update for 59 months."

So its been about a year since this vid. A few months ago they took down their website. Right before that Fonzie the owner basically told off the people whom pre ordered the game and said its being worked on, yet he didnt seem at all enthusiastic. They showed a girl worker putting together an arcade stick but that was it. Now there again is zero info for months. This looks to be obe of the biggest scams in gaming history

As somebody who's working on an indie game, this shit isn't easy even though your heart is set on seeing it through. People have to quit because of other obligations, publishers like to scam you out of money, creative differences, Paypal does fuck with people depending on their region, the devs either pay out of pocket for a lower quality game that isn't well-received, or do a crowdfund and struggle to fulfill every single pledge.

Long before they started taking pre-orders you could be an "investor" on their site. I paid for the investors limited edition years ago. There's a lot more money than a couple thousand pre-orders put into this.

Streets of Rage >>> Final Fight

This would've made a great Neo Geo or Dreamcast game.