Top 5 Games of the Show
1. Golden Sun: Dark Dawn - The mash of styles give me an FF7 vibe (Somewhat Chibi when running around, then realistic in battle), and the core game looks as good as ever. Plus it's out THIS HOLIDAY! Win for all.
2. Zelda: Skyward Sword - The moment I realised it was back to being cel-shaded is probably my favourite moment of the show. I was just expecting a nicer looking Twilight Princess, so the graphical style surprised me more than the other changes did. The controls look great, and I'm glad they really ran with the ideas seen in TP.
3. Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 - I'm impressed with how much effort they're putting into this. I was just expecting a sequel with new characters, but they're really going out of their way to make it a stunning little package. It almost doesn't seem like a traditional fighting game anymore, based on the stuff they're saying.
4. Kirby's Epic Yarn - Everything about it looks fantastic, especially the way the gameplay and visuals work perfectly together.
5. Metal Gear Solid: Rising - I was expecting some sort of Devil May Cry thing with this, but the trailer caught me by complete surprise and the promises that you'll still be able to play it stealthily puts it back on my rader. I'm hoping for them to announce some MOVE based slashing soon.
Top Nintendo Thing: The 3DS tech.
Top Microsoft Thing: Xbox - Play. I loved all the stuff they showed related to Kinect controlling the Xbox interface. Seems like something right out of a Sci-Fi movie.
Top Sony Thing: Steam on PS3 sounds like such an interesting development, so I'll be watching to see how that plays out.
DissapointmentsNo Hitman 5, no Last Guardian, and Rare only showed one game and it was basically Wii Sports. I was hoping for a few titles from them, and for them to be pretty original uses of Kinect too. They're obviously got more in the works, so I wish we had a glimpse of some of it. Tales of Graces seems dead forever too, but I had held out hope for a sneaky E3 announcement from Namco.