A few of the new items seem very uncreative

[wckowalski]

Like polydactyly, it's just deep pockets plus a pill/card drop. Belly button is just mom's purse plus a trinket drop. Glaucoma is nothing new when we have iron bar. There's another item that's just an hp up.

Also, some of the unlocks aren't thematically appropriate for what unlocks them. Why does pong unlock greed's gullet?

[Violeta]

The hp up is moldy bread.

The razor in apple might be tooth shot.

[Sp00kette]

Glass Shard is just Anemia/Anemic.

[karl-emil]

Every passive that has the bleed effect, just because you can't bleed bosses.

[Jäveln]

yep a bit dissapointing bu atleast we got that electric tear which is awsome

[SakuraKoi]

A simple reason for why a few or many items may be uncreative is because their effects are "wanted" for whatever yet more items dilute the pool. The easiest to understand would eb stat ups, which should actually have a certain balance of e.g health and damage as well as any other stat

Polydactyly and belly Button can have their raison d`whatever understood through the simple fact that their item pool lacks such items/have actually neigh

Glaucoma, the Apple and Glass Shard along with their counterparts also have effects that are rather rare now or rather have already been.

Since it just one item.

Poison is the most common and arguably weakest status effect which becomes close to void on later floora.

Fear, quite common in comparison

Charm is quite rare but still has more sources, especially two ball of bandages will be aquired fairly often , especially with just Afterbirth though arguably, despite being a common item, Betrayal is rarely taken.

For Daze, there just have been the Bar and the Bombs which may be spawned by Afterbirth's #2, which kills more runs than it saves or the new Grey Poop.

There was literary just Tough Love for the "Critical Hit"

About a worse Anemic, well...in this case the effect may not really be wished for but having just an item dilute the pool to have bad items.

[Honorable_D]

To be fair, I think this is part of the reason why Ed and Co. are done with Isaac—already hundreds upon hundreds of items. Ideas really are running dry.