{"id":112025,"date":"2020-04-25T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/04\/the_pokemon_company_apologises_for_featuring_dewgong_in_the_fourth_episode_of_twilight_wings"},"modified":"2020-04-25T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T17:30:00","slug":"the-pokemon-company-apologises-for-featuring-dewgong-in-the-fourth-episode-of-twilight-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/04\/25\/the-pokemon-company-apologises-for-featuring-dewgong-in-the-fourth-episode-of-twilight-wings\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pok\u00e9mon Company Apologises For Featuring Dewgong In The Fourth Episode Of Twilight Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/259a115491a83\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/259a115491a83\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"resize\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gfsT2uqJPOc?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&amp;start=236\" type=\"text\/html\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen>[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Earlier in the week, The Pok\u00e9mon Company aired the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/04\/video_pokemon_twilight_wings_episode_4_is_now_live\">fourth episode<\/a> of its online anime series, <em>Pok\u00e9mon: Twilight Wings<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been created to help promote <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_sword_and_shield\">Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield<\/a><\/strong> on the Nintendo Switch. The latest ep starred the Water-type Gym Leader, Nessa, and as beautifully-told, as the story was, fans couldn&#8217;t help but notice the appearance of the original generation Pok\u00e9mon, Dewgong.<\/p>\n<p>The problem here is that this Pok\u00e9mon is <em>not<\/em> actually available in the current generation of games. The Pok\u00e9mon Company was worried it may have misled fans by featuring Dewgong in the latest short and decided to issue an apology via the <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pokemon_cojp\/status\/1253655177971724288\">Japanese Pok\u00e9mon Twitter account<\/a>. Here&#8217;s a <em>very rough<\/em> Google translation:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><\/figure>\n<p>This all stems from the fact Sword and Shield only have select Pok\u00e9mon and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/06\/you_cannot_have_a_complete_national_pokedex_in_pokemon_sword_and_shield\">do not include the complete<\/a> National Dex. In saying this, the upcoming DLC expansion updates (<em>The Isle of Armor<\/em> and <em>The Crown Tundra<\/em>) will slightly improve the situation \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/01\/more_than_200_old_pokemon_are_being_added_to_sword_and_shields_national_dex\">adding<\/a> more than 200 plus &#8220;well-known&#8221; pocket monsters from past generations. <em><br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<aside class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Pok\u00e9mon Twilight Wings Episode 4\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/24d0928f65465\/pokemon-twilight-wings-episode-4.original.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/24d0928f65465\/pokemon-twilight-wings-episode-4.original.png\" alt=\"Pok\u00e9mon Twilight Wings Episode 4\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Pok\u00e9mon Twilight Wings Episode 4\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7a76db0a413a2\/pokemon-twilight-wings-episode-4.original.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7a76db0a413a2\/pokemon-twilight-wings-episode-4.original.png\" alt=\"Pok\u00e9mon Twilight Wings Episode 4\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Pok\u00e9mon Twilight Wings\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/259a115491a83\/pokemon-twilight-wings.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/259a115491a83\/pokemon-twilight-wings.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Pok\u00e9mon Twilight Wings\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><em>Did you catch the latest ep of Twilight Wings? Have you seen the rest? If not, catch up on them in our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/04\/video_pokemon_twilight_wings_episode_4_is_now_live\">previous post<\/a>.<\/em><em><br \/><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] Earlier in the week, The Pok\u00e9mon Company aired the fourth episode of its online anime series, Pok\u00e9mon: Twilight Wings. It&#8217;s been created to help promote Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield on the Nintendo Switch. The latest ep starred the Water-type Gym Leader, Nessa, and as beautifully-told, as the story was, fans couldn&#8217;t help but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}