Is this as good as the first?

It's better and an improvement on pretty much every aspect of the original
some people criticise it for not being one big linear dungeon but the open-ish world setup works better imo, if you get stuck on a puzzle or something you can go and try another area or something instead of just hitting that roadblock

>>381734865
Yes, if you don't get lost half way through and stop playing which is probably what you will do. Otherwise no, the first one did a better job of keeping the player on track.

>>381734865
Essentially an improved version of LoG, except it's far less linear and I found it to be harder