I've not watched all the DVD yet (just YouTube clips) but I'll agree it certainly isn't their best in terms of cinematography. You can see that their primary intention is to capture the energy of the fans, which the DVD does a nice job of doing, but fails to capture how the band feeds off said energy.

EDIT - Though after rewatching (granted again, I have not watched the entire concert) I don't quite understand the whole "the majority of the concert is shots of fans." I mean, there's a lot of shots of the fans for sure, but not so much that you next to never see the band. However, the shots of the fans really do appear to be placed at random and not really in any matter of significance.

I don't quite understand what you mean about HYDE being drowned out by the music, though. He sounds very clear to me. The few instances you don't hear him clearly it's because he has his mouth far away from the mic.

As far as the performance itself goes, most of the 2010 recorded lives in general seemed to show that either HYDE's voice was going through some sort of change (which isn't unheard of for him) or that he was not paying too much attention to the sound. I'm going for a little of both, because you can tell from the SWEET DREAMS performance that his range is still intact and can go to all the highs and lows displayed in 2009 and before. The amount of fun he appeared to be having, however, made up for it for the most part. I say "for the most part" because I was kind of upset at the final chorus of SWEET DREAMS where you can tell that HYDE is really getting into it, and I was hoping he would perform the song like that in 2009, where his vocals (in my opinion) were at some of the best I've heard from him along with FAITH LIVE and L'Arc's Awake tour DVD.

As for the rest of the members, their instrumentation is pitch-perfect as usual, but what stands out is the sound system. Each time VAMPS release a new DVD, they manage to improve their recording technique more and more. Every instrument is perfectly clear and suffers from little distortion. The guitar solos really sound amazing and the bass is just awesome-sounding.

Also, the overall performance of LIVE WIRE is probably the best thing I've seen in a long time, so yeah. <3<3<3<3 (Though admittedly, I may just be saying that because the only other recorded performance of the song is from that Jack in the Box live where Paul took over HYDE for vocals)

The only real problem I have with the DVD so far is that all the songs that aren't from the BEAST album (and some of them that are) really come across as just old. They're not really doing much to make the old songs sound fresh, which is (in my opinion) what makes the Budokan DVD from 2009 so great.

So yeah, amazing concert despite some setbacks, not-so-great cinematography. As with all the other DVD's (but most blatantly in this case), it's definitely not a substitute for actually attending the live, but it should hold over my withdrawal until the inevitable Japan live DVD and then hopefully L'Arc will release a new (hopefully good) album sometime this year.