I'm at 29 runs with 11 wins and at the risk of sounding obnoxiously braggy...I think the game is too easy, and I wanna say it's mostly because of how the dash works.
It just gives too many i-frames. You can upgrade to 2 dashes via the mirror, and a hermes upgrade can give up to 3(? only ever found the +2) dashes more. Add the athena dash deflect and you are invincible simply spamming dash. And the thing is, i can very much force at least athena to appear via keepsakes. hermes is less likely to give that specific boon but pops up fairly regularly in general i feel.
I would compare it to Enter the gungeon, where dodging is something very deliberate, something that in many cases you should avoid doing to not accidentally dodge into another attack. In Hades, though, I am dodging CONSTANTLY. And it works out a lot of the time.
Another smaller factor in difficulty is the abundance in health upgrades and heals. Another thing EtG did better.
Now you might say there are two solutions here: I could just not pick up the dash boons I mentioned, right? Maybe it's just me, but I don't think voluntarily not picking up the best items I can find is something that I should have to do in a roguelite.
The other thing is heat. Admittedly I've only gone up to 2 heat for now as it takes forever to get all the bounties with whatever weapon is thirsty atm. But looking over the list, I dont think they fix the problems I have with the gameplay at the moment. Some definitely look fun and I will probably go for another couple of runs to see what else changes, but I don't see it changing significantly how well my usual build performs. And again, I can almost always force that build via keepsakes.
man, I did not expect to feel down on this game this quickly. Sorry, just my thoughts right now. Maybe it'll come back around.
