Some new scans of Star Fox Assault

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If you take the perfect path, you only fight Star Wolf once, in their improved ships. You have to kill all four members to get to Andross. If you don't take that path, then it's possible to fight them twice. At that one place where the bomb explodes if you don't defeat Star Wolf in time... if you don't succeed, you can still complete the mission, but when you get to Venom, you have to fight whatever Star Wolf members you didn't kill the last time. Considering the defeated members are out of commission for that long, I would assume that they're dead and burried. (If only under piles of rubble that were once their ships.) I don't think it's required to kill Star Wolf at Venom if you're taking the easy path, they just get annoying. However, if you take the perfect path and fight the upgraded Star Wolf, you have to kill them all. I guess what it adds up to is that it's possible to complete the game without killing a single Star Wolf member, but if you want to get the best ending, you have to kill all four of them.