On first reveal, I wasn't that impressed, but then I saw side by side comparison, it really shows how much they touched up on it. There is so much detail on just about everything. Carvings and symbols on walls, the texture on clothing, the armor of that lizard faced guy...? Forgot his name, but the detail on his headgear is just... Wow. Also, I never knew TP was so blurry.

I take by my previous statements on TPHD.

Agreed. TP has the best art style to date, the screens from OP show just how wonderful it is. If they gave the port a tiny bit of love, the game would be stunning again. Better lightning, more poligons in the environment, improve the grass (Zelda U inspiration possible) and you have a game worthy of a full retail release instead of a quick cheap cash grab.

If you have ever been in a cave, that is what the ground looks like in them. The ground is more mud than dirt. 

I actually prefer the text. 

That isn't to say this texture pack doesn't have problems. There is a lot of flickering in Hyrule Field. That was why I expected more from a prefessional remaster. 

Looking great to me. Will definitely be replaying this one.

That basically is the point. Maybe i expected to much, but i expected a bit more. At least some meshes changed for more detailed versions, new fx, new lighting.

I think just the new lighting with dynamic shadows would help immensely.  Polygon improvements would mainly help in a few key spots like Hyrule Castle and certain landscape meshes.  The grass thing though is an interesting point and may be a case where the game is a victim of its tech.  The way grass is handled in Twilight Princess isn't intended for having tons of it covering every square foot of ground.  It may be quite impossible to do within the old engine.

However, I am curious about seeing what tthe grass that is there looks like.  They haven't shown any pics in the areas that already have a lot.

In order to TP be stunning again it would need full remake not HD port/remaster. And they certainly give this HD port more than tiny bit of love, just replacing all those textures was huge job. Actually I think TP HD was bigger job than doing WW HD, but because of different art style, WW HD looks much better. But TP HD definitely would have new lithinging.

It is very possible that the textures are just the original textures uncompressed (like in WWHD.) When creating standard definition games Nintendo would create high-quality textures and then compress them. In some games like the Metroid Prime series it doesn't even seem like they compressed them, it just wasn't noticeable until you would play them in HD. So the textures in TP (original) are compressed, and the ones in TP (Wii U) are not. No new textures would have to be created in that scenario. 

That's exactly what I think of this port. Even DS games have assets of higher quality than what Wii was able to put on screen, it's obvious that the original TP assets were of a much higher quality than what the game looked like on Wii. I'm sensing that this port took them even less effort than it looks.

Finally, someone else who appreciates the darker style of TP. :D