In Episode 8 of The Gamers with Glasses Podcast, we discuss the games we’re playing: Bowser’s Fury, The Medium, Ghosts & Goblins Resurrected, Buddy Simulator 1984, Kentucky Route Zero, Fights in Tight Spaces, and Plead with the Mountain God! Our special topic this episode is platforming games: Why are platformers such good entry points into video games? What makes for a great platformer? What are some of the most innovative platformers we’ve played? Are metroidvanias really platformers? Finally, we discuss our non-game recommendations, which includes Svalbard’s album When I Die, Will I Get Better, Eula Biss’s essay collection Having and Being Had, the film Judas and the Black Messiah, and animated series Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts.