The Gamers with Glasses Show - Episode 8: Platformer Mania

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.

Available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts!