Pest Control

This is the first nitrome game in a long time that I have seriously enjoyed. Yes, there were a few scenarios that were a little unbalanced (3-2 is really hard), but other than that, the game is extrordinarily well done.

props Nitrome, this is why people play your games.

I would like to revise my previous comment. it's not that 3-2 is too hard, it's that at level 3, the difficulty curve bends just a little too much. levels 1 and 2 are easy, level 3 is med-hard.

Level 3 is incredibly hard compared to the other levels!

im stuck on the venus flytrap level. for some reason i cant get it. its annoying me now! HELP! thnx

with the fly trap one you have to be very quick, and btw im stuck on the stag beetkle one, cant click enough

Move the swatter carefully down the mouth of the plant without touching the sides. Click the fly, and then move out of the plant before it closes.

I beat the stag beetle as my timer read zero!

Curse you, locust!!!

How long is this? I beat the boss of 3 and it's just getting repetitive. Seems like a crappy Point Blank to me.

Answering my own question - level 4 is the last one. I liked that it got pretty tough, the 12 bees on 4.8 was probably the most fun level. Not a bad game.

Help for 3.8

dang it! I can't get past the supid leaf cutter ants!

Mmm, not that bad, is it?

Can't get past the stag beetle

I refuse to play this game because it encourages insect genocide and prejudice.

SPOILER AHEAD

right click then rewind

What's the point in playing if you're just going to cheat like that? The stag beetle took me 2 tries, it's not very hard. I got it with like 2 seconds left.

woohoo i got past the tag beatle. if you an actually get past it you'll probably have 0 seconds left unlesss you're really quick. You are right level 4.1 is hard.

How do you get past the stag beetle on Level 3?

I don't understand how you rewind? When I right click I don't have that option?

I love the stag beetle level :) Gives me the highest level score.

At the end

With the weird trophy...

No complaints though.

Argh! I can't get past the

12 wasps

fireflies!

Got past the stag beetle.

Done all on 4 bar 4-1 (hard!) 4-7 and 4-8.

Tough levels.

150 ants??? tcha... yeah... any tips on how to do it?

Davi-
Hit the ants that cross the bottom of the screen until the two diagonal lines of ants cross. When they do smack where they cross so that multiple ants die all at once, and then go back to hitting the line at the bottom. I hope you understand.

I don't know how to past the stag beetle!!:( help me please!!

Does anybody have any tips for passing level 4.8? That's the only level left i need to pass.How are you suppose to kill one bee in every 5 seconds without getting killed? I hate this level

...You click on it. Like every single other thing in the game.

one of my favourite nitrome titles yet, at least through the first 3 worlds. great game, reminds me of mario paint. 5/5

Cute game. I love the graphics. But I agree with some of the review comments about the difficulty. I wrote a similar game way back in 2001 called "Bug Control", and while testing the game I found that my arm got really sore. Its the random jerking around of the mouse that does it. I recommend frequent breaks when playing a game like this.

For me, the key to defeating the bees/wasps was

to take them on individually. I know, they all look the same, but you can still find out which wasp you swatted last by their movement pattern and their increased speed. As they get faster when swatted once or twice (it takes three swats to kill them), you'll just earn a bunch of furious wasps if you swat them indiscriminately. When you've only got half of them left, you can let your blind killer instinct loose...

Technically, a lot of the bugs you kill the game aren't really "pests"..

Otherwise, a nice game, albeit not really animal-friendly.

Also..

There are a few bugs in the game (the ones only the game creators can swat), and the difficulty level is all over the place. The level where you have to keep two bugs in the air (and destroy them if you can) is bugged - once you kill one of the bugs you automatically fail, you must try to keep both of the bugs alive or kill them at the exact same time.

The last boss fight is also quite difficult, but mostly because of shoddy collision detection. It took me a while to realize that only the exact center of the swatter is susceptible to "dying", and the rest is invincible. After that, everything was cakewalk.

Okay, now the only level left for me ist 4-1, the fireflies. Does anyone have any hints on how to complete it (apart from the amateurish right-cklick->rewind cheat)? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Oh yes, and apart from "Just click on the fireflies quickly when they're unlit"... :P

Not a superb game in my book. The graphics are nice, as expected, it's stylish and I like the many unique bug behaviours, but other than that, it's mostly just an annoying click-fest for me.

To each his own, I guess.

For the fireflies...

There is always one which is unlit, no matter how many of them are there. The level gets exponentially easier the more flies you successfully hit. If you cannot pass the level, apart from trying to be faster, try camping in the middle of the screen and hitting every black fly you can. Be reckless at the beginning of the level and more careful as more flies are dead (and less lives you have). Once the number of flies is diminished you can "gamble" and follow them in turns until the followed one gets unlit. After a certain number of tries you have to get lucky.

Am I the only one who only gets 1 life on level 4.2 (the dripping water one)? I've had no luck passing it with only 1 life...

That's right, Steven, the moment you get wet, it's game over in that level.

@ the fireflies: I managed to complete it in the meantime, and my only advice is "Try it a hundred times, and be lucky once."

The "submit score"-button didn't work for me either, maybe because I didn't complete the whole game in one sitting.

how do you get past the third boss? with the one where you hit the eyes?

great strategys for bosses!!!
centipied:

simply dodge him, go for the behind first, because it becomes unhittable later in the level. remember where he stops, because he only stops in 2 places!

spider on steroids! anyway, use teleport

right click, click where you want to go

to dodge his attacks untill he jumps at you then just circle round and strike!

use teleport right away. complete the move right as his tail flashes. that means he's locked on to you. WARNING!!!! DO NOT TELEPORT TO HURT HIS EYES! YOU WILL GET HURT!!!

3rd boss: Wait until the scorpion lifts its claws, then hit him. Dodge the sting. Don't worry too much about speed, you've got more than enough time.

any hints on 4.8 apart from cheating??

some good hints for 4.1 which makes it easy as cake:

*as soon as game starts click on the first grey thingy, you should always have enough time to kill it an it doesnt matter if you click on anything else in the process
*as soon as you loose a life you got sth like 0.5s where u are invincable, that means click on everything that moves asap.

as soon as you are down to 5 follow single thingies and it should be no prob.

i need help with 3.6 i keep running out of time. HELP!!

Hey guys, there are hints for both 3.6 and 4.8 up there among the older posts. Just have a closer look (for 4.8, look for "wasps", and for 3.6, for "ants").

Is anyone nowadays playing the game as-is, or are you just trying out different ways how to cheat? I mean, look at gamemaster's post about "strategies" - use teleport, don't use teleport here, use it there.. well newsflash, this "teleport" is as much a cheat as is hitting the rewind button to stop the time.

What's the point of playing the game if you'll cheat? Seeing the final screen? I really don't understand how the win-game screen in any way rewarding if you cheated your way through to see it...

Please help me on the stag beetle its sooo HARD!

im really stuck on 4.8 and 4.1. can anyone help? also the cheat doesnt work for me.! HELP! xx

anyone know how to get over 1k points on loucst (3.4) and glowing mites (4.7)?

Um... "It's Wario Ware with a flyswatter?"

Anybody else baffled by the lack of the obvious derivation of this game from a well-known 16-bit classic?

If not let me clue us all in:
MARIO PAINT
MARIO PAINT
MARIO PAINT
MARIO PAINT
MARIO PAINT

Reviewers L2game history plz.

Actually, it is a direct homage/ripoff of Police Trainer.

You're hitting things with your mouse.

Come on, you can't say this game rips off anything similar. If I could do that, I could say Breakout is a ripoff of Tetris because both of them have colored blocks.

elemeno - in defense of all game reviewers, it is just not humanly possible to have played every game out there, nor to know about every mini-game that was included as a pack-in to a niche game console peripheral, which historically receive only a small fraction of the market penetration the parent console sees.

So, what may seem obvious to you, may not be to someone else.

Besides, swatting insects with a fly swatter is a fairly common practice, so making a game out of it is what seems obvious to me.

It's absolutely impossible to beat the 12 wasps. At least for someone who doesn't have the time to play the game 24/7. I made all the other levels but this one is too hard. Why do they create such a level, where everybody starts to hate the game?
If I don't run out of lifes, I run out of time. And it's NOT possible to see, which wasp one already hit. I checked this out.
I loved Nitrome befor, but this is senseless and annoying!

Well, that 12 wasp level IS annoying, but I made it :)
It didn't put me off Nitrome.
Everyone must have a challenge once in a while anyway.

@Kaschko/level 12: Yes, you can see which wasp you already hit. The ones that have been swatted before will fly faster, and will come for your cursor more directly. Take them on one by one, then it won't take you 24/7 to complete the level. It may well take you 24+7 replays, though. If you managed to do the fireflies, however, you can complete the wasps as well.

I tell you, I'll try a few times more, but just because I want to finish this little nightmare for my ego.
Of course I'm still a Nitrome fan! Don't get me wrong...
The Fireflies were hard, too. But this wasps come directly from hell...

...sigh...

...Juste made it....

...R.I.P. bloody wasps...

help with 150 ants please!

Just concentrate on the area where all the ants meet. It's between the trees in the lower middle of the screen. If you have touchpad and mouse do some double clicks.
If the area is empty jump around and wait until it's crowded again.

This reminds me of a game in the arcades here in the Philippines once. The control is a hammer. I grab the hammer then whack a level I want to play. Then it tells me what to do and if I finish reading, I whack the the screen to play the level (The level starts in...09 seconds something). For example. In the Windowpane level, I'm supposed to whack...sort of like 15 windowpane-stealing ninjas WITHOUT hitting the bomb-carrying soldiers. If I hit a soldier, I lose a life. 3 hits, game over. Good times. It made my wrist hurt.

Hi, i need help on the stag beetle. Anyone is able to go through that stage?

its a bug on 4.2! When you start, you have always lost two lives, being hit by drips.

...fair enough Jay. ;)

I should have said,

"This game is almost EXACTLY like a classic for the Super Nintendo that many may not have played since it was played with the (otherwise almost completely useless) SNES Mouse... it was a minigame on Mario Paint with no name but mysteriously started by clicking the cup of coffee icon on the home screen of the main game.

I'd encourage all to check that out as a charming and quaint piece of video game history, if you liked this one."

PS. Thanks to all reviewers for doing this job for us for free, regardless of whether you've heard of Mario Paint or not. ::sheepish grin::

Thanks, elemeno, nice job! :D

THIS IS THE BEST CHEAT FOR 3.2 (WASPS)

What you have to do is. When they are flying, hit each one ONE AT A TIME. K? Once you chose thy one you wanna kill, hit them in the head about 5 times fast!!!(FAST IS IMPORTANT) or until they spin off the screen. Once you beat it (i did) they will swirl off the screen so you know they died. Do this the same for all 5 wasps

i can't beat 4-8

For stag beetle

just click really fast

find the spot near the bottom where the ants cross and click there really fast

clicking on them one at a time, although its VERY tedious work

How do you do 4.1????
It is hard keeping track of which firefly is unlit.
Also don't forget, you can put your mouse over lit fireflies just don't whack the lit ones so then it is easier to travel all over the screen without getting hurt. But that's just a reminder because I thought too that Oh no the firefles have me surrounded!So if you forget, remember this .

heres a hint for anyone who needs it on the waps, I had a bit of trouble with this too...

you need to click on a wasp 10 times to kill it.Try to seperate them as much if you can, or if you can't, move your mouse in a circle so they all follow and go in the same derection.This should make it easier becouse you wont have stingers near you when you try clicking on wasps. Dont give up!

How do i kill the wasps on the caves?!?!?!?!! so darn hard!!!!

I PASSED THE ANOOYING FIREFLY ONE YAY

I had a lot of trouble with the stag beetle, and I finally found that

picking up the mouse in my left hand allowed me to click much faster than I could with it sitting on the desk.

ummmm... I was really wondering... how to beat the BOSS ON LEVEL 3?! I mean, how do you hit it withOUT losing a live?? its like IMPOSSIBLE!!!

How does

right click rewind work? I right click but there is no rewind function, just "about adobe flash player" and settings" - when do you right click?

marie :)

can not beat glowing mites, any advice?

whats the last boss?

Okay, okay. I'll play the game. But, in my mind, the bugs are merely being stunned and taken away from the location.

Mega cheat for Stage 2.7: (anyone will be able to do it, no right-clicking and it is not exactly a cheat, but can get you 1696 score on this level)

It is actually possible to move the swatter to hit the fly through the bottom of the flytrap. It is possible to do this for both flies, but you must be VERY quick. I managed to get 1696 score doing this. (Compare this with what you got to find out how much faster it is.) If you got more score than me without doing this, you are a god.

hey im stuck on 4.1 and 4.8 HELP ME, AND TRY TO BEAT AT THE STAG BEATTLE : 3046 POINTS HAAHA!

thank you SO much, "WASPS!" with your hint about the...well, wasps!

Cooley123 here - [this is why im not logged on]

im on a different computer and i forgot my user name and password (on my laptop, I have the password remembered with the username; it logs me in automatically)

your theory of losing two lives on 4.2 because of a bug is wrong! I played it and i had all three lives, and even though I didn't really check them, I lost about 2 lives being hit by drips. Sorry, but that bug is invalid; as in there is none.

Hey, can someone help me with 3.2? I am stuck with avoiding their stingers. I finally passed the ants! I just really want to get to level 4!

If you want to change the background of the level your on, you can click the square for the level you want to play, then click the back or forwards button. The level will then be played on the background that you select.
The only level it doesn't work on is the spider egg sac - the egg sacs appear under the web.

Blank I was going to make that comment first.

I can't get past the Fireflies and the 12 wasps! Help!!!