Mélange d'action, de stratégie et de jeu de rôle, Lock's Quest sur DS reprend le concept des Tower Defense pour en faire un jeu original et addictif. Le joueur devra construire des fortifications et assumer la défense de son territoire face à des vagues successives de monstres. Un mode multijoueur permet en outre à deux adversaires de s'affronter à coups de stylet.
She gave my mother such a turn, that I have always been convinced I am indebted to Miss Betsey for having been born on a Friday. The word was appropriate to the moment. My mother was so much worse that Peggotty, coming in with the teaboard and candles, and seeing at a glance how ill she was, - as Miss Betsey might have done sooner if there had been light enough, - conveyed her upstairs to her own room with all speed; and immediately dispatched Ham Peggotty, her nephew, who had been for some days past secreted in the house, unknown to my mother, as a special messenger in case of emergency, to fetch the nurse and doctor.