I really enjoyed Nintendo's E3 as a whole.
Just 100%ed Octo Expansion. Loved it. Way better than the single player campaign from the base game. The CO text convos were funny, and the music was actually good (took me by surprise).
Been enjoying the Octopath Traveler demo too. It has a cute art-style, but for as many cutscenes as it has, I think the sprites really limits the expressions. Scenes feel a bit stiff, as it relies heavily on the voice acting, music, and ones imagination to really sell some of the drama. The one Ophilia and Lianna scene on top a mountain comes to mind as a bit weak. Primrose's story was interesting to me, especially toward the end where I thought a certain someone's English voice performance did a good job selling the scene. Olberic was pretty nice too --strong opening, decent finish, definately want to know where that journey will go. I'm still going through the others, but so far, it's not bad at all. Game-play feels the same for everyone, despite all having unique skills and weapons. It'll probably get more in-depth as the player builds a bigger party and more skills are needed to topple bosses. Also the music is fantastic. Looking forward to the game next month.
As for the e3 tournaments, the Splatoon 2 World Championships were way more entertaining than I expected. The finals where team Back Squids super jumped in mass to dunk there power shells into the basket was sick! Shows how the game has more depth and team strategy than noticed at first glance. The Smash tourney was okay. Could tell the players are still trying to figure out how the new game works.
The Nintendo direct was cool. I'm a big Smash fan, so naturally I enjoyed the in-depth look at the game (Isaac for Smash, Sakurai!). It helps that since we didn't know anything before hand, we were fed a lot of info up front. I imagine that's what Nintendo wants to go for when games like Metroid Prime 4 are primed for a near release, instead of teasing players with info that they'll grow bored with until next year when the same game is shown. That's how I felt a bit with Spider-Man PS4's showing (the only game I cared for during the Sony briefing).
I'm gonna talk Spidey very briefly in that context. It was very expected, and the movie shown was alright (it was certainly a better spectacle than all of the Hollywood junk out so far). Nothing really surprising. I think it'll be better to watch later this year when proper context is given, as I'm not that vested in the bigger story yet, thus didn't care or have much curiosity who the Sinister Six leader was at the time of watching. The gameplay footage shown of the open world and the Shocker Boss fight on the show floor was way better and more of what I was looking for. Totally sold on Spider-Man PS4 right now. Hope it delivers.
Anyway, Nintendo at E3 was cool for me. Gonna continue hoping my most wanted Smash additions (Golden Sun+Sawano fanservice) make the cut.