When Level-5 released Layton's Mystery Journey [$15.99] back in July of last year, it was interesting for several reasons. First was that, at least outside of Japan, it was releasing exclusively on iOS and Android first, with a Nintendo 3DS version arriving a few months later. It's not often you see a big brand like the Layton series releasing a brand new game on mobile first. Second was that Layton's Mystery Journey on iOS and Android was a fully premium game, and although it was sold in piecemeal fashion with all of its additional puzzles and cosmetic items available as separate IAP purchases, if you ended up buying everything the price would equal what Level-5 was charging for the game on the Nintendo 3DS. Pricing parity is another thing you don't often see between console and mobile releases of the same game. In fact, I'd argue the mobile way of pricing Layton's Mystery Journey was superior as you'd get the entire base game for $16 and then could choose to buy or not buy any of the additional content as you saw fit. Nintendo 3DS owners had to plop down the full price for everything included whether they wanted those additional things or not.
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Anyway, despite all that Layton's Mystery Journey still clocked in at what's considered the higher pricing spectrum on mobile, even for just the base game. That means there's a lot of folks out there who may have been interested in the game but weren't quite willing to part with t...