Finished it and have over 140 hours on it with 1 big reset. Overall it is a bigger improvement compare to the first game having more content, many more ways to level up stats, more weapons, enemies and quest variety etc...
The Night of the Raven expansion is really good too but it does ruin the pacing of the main story. I havent really played the original version to compare but the expansion really made the game even more epic.

The story I would say is more generic than the first game, it's about stopping the evil dragons as you heard many times in fantasy epics. Compare to the first game story, vibe and cast , it's weaker.

As for the main hub world itself it's pretty content rich and plus another 2 world hub later on is equally as big. Personally I prefer the first game's map more cuz of the setting.

Would recommend getting some patches or mods that fixes bugs and softlocks at the steam workshop to make the overall experience better.

As for combat, it's still pretty clunky but you'll get to use it. Very hardcore RPG game with a lot of grinding killing monsters.

Pros:
- Bigger and better
- Fun cast
- Epic and rewarding quests
- Rich content
- Pretty game

Cons:
- Janky still
- Main story is generic
- Buggy still
- A little too unforgiving for newcomers and requires most of your time grinding. (Heard the expansions made it harder)

I would rate it a 8.5/10, I had a blast.

10/10

old school hardcore rpg make me happy man and this make me happy man indeed