I just finished reading the G4 Staff’s Top E3 Highlights, and I thought I’d offer my own five favorite items from E3 2009.

I’ll hit these in no particular order. Firstly, The Last Guardian. I’ve got to agree that the trailer looks amazing, but I have to agree with Penny Arcade’s take on how the story will end. I should probably go back and play Ico before The Last Guardian is actually released.

Interestingly, we’ve got very little about what the actual plot of The Last Guardian will be. There’s a boy, and there’s some weird canine chicken-dragon thing. I guess that’s the guardian. The one that’s the last one. I think I read something about stealth gameplay, which sounds great. Interesting how you can get so psyched for a game you know so little about, isn’t it?

Next, Scribblenauts. I’ve written recently about it, so I won’t go to far into depth here, but the fact that they were able to include such a huge dictionary of words on a DS cart and allow for each to create its own objects with which you can interact is amazing. I’ll be buying this game as soon as it’s available. And then I shall summon Cthulhu.

Heavy Rain is a game I’ve been looking forward to for years. Quantic Dream seems to have realized that their plot derailment at the very end of Indigo Prophecy was a bad idea. When the final bosses hiding behind their minions turn out to be an ancient Aztec oracle and some weird AIs made out of electricity who “grew sentient using the net in the eighties”, you know your game has gone off the deep end.

Anyway, Heavy Rain is looking to be a much more sensible, much more graphically impressive, and overall better game. I can’t wait.

Lastly, Brutal Legend. It’s got heavy metal, Jack Black, and it’s done by the same guy who did psychonauts. I’m excited to see a game coming out that has a chance at hitting that level of humor.

There were many more announcements of fantastic-sounding games at E3, but those are the five that stick out most to me. What are your top five?