I saw a trailor of it in my copy of KOF'97 for the PS1 and I thought it looked awesome. All KOF characters were drawn in different anime style different from SNK's usual arts, it was really cute. *Points to KOF Kyo Athena avvie* I've never played it before but I always have wanted too.
Yeah I got an import for my psx, it is pretty slow paced but great for telling the story of KOF 97, the new face scenes are great.
Definately worth getting if you can but only if you can speak Japanese.
The desperations are done in animated movie format. The game also i believe has more than one ending depending on if u are liked by everyone in the game
Also all voice acting is done by the characters which works great for Iori and Kyo scenes.
There are also appearences from Yuki (Kyos lady friend ) and other new characters to the series.
Plus the music is pretty good not to mention its pretty original game play wise.