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?
 
Layton's Mystery Journey
It's rare for a full-blown AAA multi-platform release to arrive on iOS first, and it's even more rare for the iOS version to be in complete feature parity with its console or PC siblings. Well that's exactly what has happened with Level-5's newest game Layton's Mystery Journey [$15.99], which arrived this week on iOS, Android, and the 3DS in Japan but won't be coming to the rest of the world's 3DS machines until October. It's a strong sign from Level-5 that they want to take the mobile platform seriously for gaming, and Layton's Mystery Journey comes with a serious prem...