This ad might give the impression that you play as the evil demon thing. Which would have been awesome (though the game itself was actually excellent on its own.)
After this SNK became obsessed with street fighter clones and became the video game maker equivalent of that girl in art class who squandered her talent painting horses all the time.
Wait...did I go into bizarro-world? When did Crystalis become a good game? It was hated by nearly everyone when it originally came out and is generally regarded as one of SNKs shittier NES games next to maybe Athena.