i honestly could go on an entire fucking tirade of how masterfully hades manages to balance the dungeon-crawling and fighting with the plot and relationship progression between characters, and how the fact that you Die A Lot is baked into the story and makes for an extremely satisfying slow-drip of information that results in.....honestly some of the most organic developing relationships i've ever seen in a game that tries to do that kinda thing???
that and the difficulty is fine tuned to make it EXTREMELY satisfying whenever you progress further, and really puts you into zagreus' shoes vis a vis the seemingly impossible task of escaping from hell (and his shitty dad) that he's trying to accomplish