Lord Wolfgang Krauser said:
haha I hate to sound like a dick about this, but I find that a great amount of time of this vid is killed on basics.
You have to keep in mind -- every year is somebody's first KOF. People who aren't just making adjustments from the way they played the last one, and the one before that. For them, the basics are important, and it's nice that the DVD is accessable to anyone, even new players.
I only play '02 casually, and before I started playing '02, I barely played KOF at all (I played '94 and '95 when they were new, but for '96-'99 only a handful of games of each -- nobody to play with. And I didn't even realize there WAS a '00 or '01 until I found this site...). I much prefered the FFs, the RBs, and even the AOFs, so the fact that the DVD covered basics of play, and BnB for a lot of characters I'd never used before, was much appreciated. I love Angel, but I don't know if I would have gotten into her without the DVD...
In fact, even now, I'd say 90% of the 2 player matches I've had in '02 would be with people from this site... I never had the opportunity to learn outside or play against others, because there is no outside or others near where I live (that I know of). But when we had our last so cal meet at Droid and SPark's place, I was able to hold my own, and won at least as many as I lost, including some against Sonofx, who I would say is a better player than me.
To sum up, I think that DVD turned me from a KOF player who completely sucked, into one who is at least moderate with some characters.