Just watched this DVD. My 2 cents:

Since it's really the GOUT sharpened up, the nasty layer of artifacts caused by the denoiser (on the master tape for GOUT) and also the aliasing is much more visible. This, together with the compressed shadows creates a starker image, but it's not really detail, just dirt. The shadow compression helps the image in certain scenes, but it hurts in others (by making the faces too dark - see the cantina scene).

The making-of text in the Extras menu is confusing. Why doing the upscale & sharpening in Photoshop, why not use a video app? It probably also explains why they did the "color correction" with one setting for the entire movie instead of addressing problematic scenes on their own. "Great pains were taken to retain the look of the 1993 telecine...": then why did they alter it in the first place? :)

I watched it with mono audio so I cannot speak of the 5.1 track. The two things I really like in this DVD is the menu intro animation and the fact that the shadow compression made the faces look better and less "flat" in some scenes. (Also the Greedo subtitles look good.)

I think this DVD is a nice addition to the line of GOUT based custom DVDs but the G-Force-enhanced version looks better. Also, the levels settings in G-Force's script retain the proper amount of shadow detail without hurting anywhere IMO (and it's also just one setting for the entire movie :) ).