Ship Tease/Video Games/Visual Novel

Examples of Ship Tease in Visual Novels include:

It just had to be the route of Fate/stay night which has Saber calling Archer and Rin intimate, Archer putting his jacket around Rin to keep her warm, and a lot of other Subtext that also brings us Archer's Face Heel Turn and Rin hooking up with Shirou.
~Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney~ does this quite a lot.
- There's Phoenix and Edgeworth and how concerned Phoenix is with Edgeworth's well-being, even when Maya is in a very dangerous situation. (The concern is very much mutual - Edgeworth charters a private jet to see Phoenix when he hears that Phoenix is in hospital.)
- Phoenix and Maya also have a fair bit of this. Phoenix tried running over a burning bridge to save Maya (and failed when the bridge collapsed under him).
- Also Iris in the third game who once shared a very intimate relationship with Phoenix while impersonating her sister, Dahlia, and whom Phoenix once put his life on the line to protect her by drinking what might be poison, is also teased and appears resolved at the end of the game...except that she seems to disappear during the seven-year timeskip between Trials and Tribulations and Apollo Justice. ...well, so do Maya and Edgeworth, though.
M and Mary in Shikkoku no Sharnoth, although Mary actually seems to hate him for most of the game.
The licensed game adapation of Tim Burton's film Alice in Wonderland takes ship teasing in a completely different direction (see the Film section above). While the movie contains hints of Hatter/Alice, the game contains hints of Hatter/White Queen.
In Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai!, barring the main heroines who of course each got their own ending, many hints were also dropped for a number of side characters such as Fushikawa in Mayucchi's path, leading to their promotion to heroine in the sequel.

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