{"id":113828,"date":"2020-06-05T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/06\/the_latest_pokemon_twilight_wings_episode_contains_cool_nods_to_sword_and_shields_launch"},"modified":"2020-06-05T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T10:15:00","slug":"the-latest-pokemon-twilight-wings-episode-contains-cool-nods-to-sword-and-shields-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/06\/05\/the-latest-pokemon-twilight-wings-episode-contains-cool-nods-to-sword-and-shields-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"The Latest Pok\u00e9mon Twilight Wings Episode Contains Cool Nods To Sword And Shield&#8217;s Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4f8b03660f989\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4f8b03660f989\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The latest episode of the online Pok\u00e9mon Twilight Wings anime has now been released, and this one has some blink-and-you&#8217;ll-miss-it moments that&#8217;ll please fans of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_sword_and_shield\"><strong>Sword and Shield<\/strong><\/a> on Switch. You can watch the full episode above, so we&#8217;d urge you to check that out before reading on if you don&#8217;t want to be spoiled ahead of time.<\/p>\n<p>Watched it? Good, let&#8217;s take a closer look.<\/p>\n<p>First brought to our attention by Twitter user <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TAHK0\/status\/1268777098874744832?s=19\">@TAHK0<\/a>, there are two moments in the episode that link back to Sword and Shield&#8217;s prerelease build-up. The more obvious of the two is the scene below, where a Galarian Ponyta can be spotted on a screen behind Oleana. The scene looks just like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/the_pokemon_sword_and_shield_live_stream_is_now_over\">Galarian Ponyta&#8217;s live stream reveal<\/a> (who can forget those 24 hours staring at a digital forest?)<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Twilight Wings\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e19c9407fa741\/twilight-wings.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e19c9407fa741\/twilight-wings.original.jpg\" alt=\"Twilight Wings\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Galarian Ponyta\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a405f88dbdf4a\/galarian-ponyta.original.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a405f88dbdf4a\/galarian-ponyta.original.png\" alt=\"Galarian Ponyta\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The second comes later in the episode, when Oleana is flicking through her notes. For the briefest second, you see a heavily pixelated image of Sirfetch&#8217;d, just like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/09\/sword_and_shields_glitched_pokemon_will_be_revealed_tomorrow\">the one released by The Pok\u00e9mon Company<\/a> to tease the Pok\u00e9mon&#8217;s existence to real-life fans.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Twilight Wings\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cdc0e906fcb60\/twilight-wings.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cdc0e906fcb60\/twilight-wings.original.jpg\" alt=\"Twilight Wings\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Sirfetch'd Glitch\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/abc4913f4202c\/sirfetchd-glitch.original.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/abc4913f4202c\/sirfetchd-glitch.original.png\" alt=\"Sirfetch'd Glitch\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>As @TAHK0 mentions, the episode makes it feel like fans were piecing together Oleana&#8217;s research before Sword and Shield released, which we think is a really cool way to remember the games&#8217; promotional period. These new Pok\u00e9mon teases were all pretty exciting at the time for fans of the series, so we wouldn&#8217;t say no to more reveals like them in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Missed earlier episodes? You can find them here:<\/p>\n<p>Pretty neat, huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] The latest episode of the online Pok\u00e9mon Twilight Wings anime has now been released, and this one has some blink-and-you&#8217;ll-miss-it moments that&#8217;ll please fans of Sword and Shield on Switch. You can watch the full episode above, so we&#8217;d urge you to check that out before reading on if you don&#8217;t want to [&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-113828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113828","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=113828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}