It all comes down to this.
AND THE WINNER IS…
LEGEND OF ZELDA: SKYWARD SWORD
The Legend of Zelda is the best game of this year, for multiple reasons, the story is great, hell even emotional at times, it has great graphics, which is saying a lot for the Wii, and the controls are perfect, so spot on that if feels like your actually wielding a sword instead of the wiimote.
Are there other games that deserve this spot, sure, Batman: Arkham City had a story was Oscar worthy, Skyrim was a huge rpg that took up most of our time, Saints Row the Third was pure fun, and Portal 2 was Valve making magic, but they missing something that Skyward Sword has.
What Skyward Sword have that the other games don’t is a sense of innocence, in terms that this makes you feel like a young kid playing in the woods with a stick for a sword whacking invisible enemies and imaging a grand adventure. Creating Monsters and bad guys to fight, while adventuring to temples to save the princess. Ironically enough, this is the inspiration for The Legend of Zelda series as a whole, but Skyward sword does this perfectly.
This is why, I am happy to give the first Gameitall.com Game of the Year to Nintendo and Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.