Things may change since still early access, it's still good but after completing the ea content at the moment the first one is just way better. Just some thoughts:

don't like how the combat is slower, holding x,y,b for abilities/cast slows the game down too much.
don't like the weapons in this one, especially the 2 torches
boons are not as cool as in the first game, in general upgrades, boons, keepsakes, aspects etc that are supposed to change playstyle/attacks are pretty flat compared to H1.
Story and dialogue is not as strong as H1, areas look mostly the same, not visually as good as the first

just play the first if you haven't, or just wait until 1.0