I'm loving the visual upgrades on the whole - there's a particular spot in Skingrad in the rainy nighttime that really made me stop and say 'holy shit.' And all the little details put into the architecture and furniture and clutter items is off the charts - such an unsurprising shame that the move-drag feature got a downgrade, because I am dying to do some house-decorating but don't know if I can handle the extra level of frustration.
I have to say though that the Great Forest is really unimpressive. The models and textures are all an undeniable upgrade and look fantastic up-close, but they don't come together to form a unified immersive forest landscape the way the OG did. It took the grass getting removed for me to realize just how much it carried the OG's visuals; without it hiding the seams, Remaster's Great Forest just looks like a scattering of tree models sticking out of a featureless green / brown landscape.
Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read.