The idea behind the TouchArcade Game of the Week is that every Friday afternoon we post the one game that came out this week that we think is worth giving a special nod to. Now, before anyone goes over-thinking this, it doesn’t necessarily mean our Game of the Week pick is the highest scoring game in a review, the game with the best graphics, or really any other quantifiable “best" thing. Instead, it’s more just us picking out the single game out of the week’s releases that we think is the most noteworthy, surprising, interesting, or really any other hard to describe quality that makes it worth having if you were just going to pick up one.
These picks might be controversial, and that’s OK. If you disagree with what we’ve chosen, let’s try to use the comments of these articles to have conversations about what game is your game of the week and why. Without further ado?
 
Lock’s Quest
After they had captured everyone’s attention with Drawn to Life, but before they became a household name with Scribblenauts, developer 5th Cell released a super quirky game on the Nintendo DS back in 2008 called Lock’s Quest. It’s a strategy game that mashes together elements of tower defense and hack ‘n slash action, and is all wrapped up in a surprisingly robust story-driven RPG package. It was the kind of quirky game that made the Nintendo DS such a fun handheld system, but despite receiving pretty good reviews when ...