Ace Attorney had it's 20th anniversary last year and combined with the long awaited translation of Dai Gyakuten Saiban/the Great Ace Attorney Chronicles I got all nostalgic.
THIS moment is my absolute favourite scene:
Phoenix Wright, terrified of heights, running across a burning bridge above a canyon because he's far more scared of losing anyone else, that he'd do anything to stop it.
And in what would become a recurring motif, when Phoenix is in desperate straits, Edgeworth puts everything on the line to build him back up.
The same way Phoenix saved him.
I love these games.
(longboy combined version under cut cos the quality gets nerfed)
It's actually pretty hilarious how Phoenix and Miles define each other as ‘my childhood friend’ or ‘my best friend since childhood’ because that makes it sound like they’ve been in a continuous friendship lasting from their childhood to the modern day. You know, like, ‘oh, if you’ve known each other since the 4th grade until today, that’s like 15 years of friendship. Obviously you know each other well!’.
But they actually mean that they were friends for a couple months through 4th grade, didn’t see each other for 15 years and then re-met during adulthood. But they still call each other a ‘childhood friend’ and act like it because these few months of 4th grade were legitimate unironically life-changing for them and it still led them to know the other so deeply and they’ve been thinking of the other as their best friend even when they didn’t think they’ll ever see each other again and that mean they still act as if they’ve known each other continuously for 15+ years and -muffled screaming into my pillow-
[ID: A digital illustration of Phoenix Wright and Miles Edgeworth from Ace Attorney. They're in a green tinted public bathroom with graffiti on the walls. Phoenix is wearing his beanie and grey hoodie and Miles is wearing his usual suit. Phoenix is leaning against the sink countertop with his arms around Miles, holding on to him as they kiss, Miles' hands are braced on the sink. They're reflected in the mirror behind Phoenix that has a fluorescent light above it. End description.]