>As for the inventory, I'm unsure what you mean by auto-equipped
Sorry my bad. The first time I played I thought the box had items and I picked up the helmet/sword/armor and they auto-equipped. Now I tried the game again and realized that I had all those items from the start and the box just made me equip the items.
>Hold -> Release -> Tap
Maybe this is only the case of me not being used to it. I believe that a dodge triggered by releasing the run key while running and pressing it again after a very short time could be more natural.