{"id":27058,"date":"2026-07-20T00:01:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T00:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=27058"},"modified":"2026-07-17T13:02:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:02:17","slug":"70s-style-robot-anime-geppy-x-switch-ps4-ps5-xbox-series-x-s-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/20\/70s-style-robot-anime-geppy-x-switch-ps4-ps5-xbox-series-x-s-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"70’s Style Robot Anime Geppy-X (Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X\/S, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Even though I was born in the mid to late 70s, I did watch a lot of older anime in the 80s when I was a kid.\u00a0 Shows like Speed Racer, Star Blazers, Voltron, Battletech, and others.\u00a0 But what if you combined the style and animations of these old cartoons and put them in a 2D horizontally side scrolling giant robot shooter, complete with intro and outro credits and theme songs, previews for the next episode, and even toy commercials?\u00a0 Well you\u2019d get Geppy-X, that\u2019s what!\u00a0 Originally released on the PlayStation only in Japan back in 1999, you can now play it on modern consoles (reviewed on Switch here).<\/p>\n

This game is set up in episodes.\u00a0 And before you ask, Geppy-X was not a real anime back then, they just made up a fictional one to reflect the style of those cartoons.\u00a0 You view the intro theme song, and the beginning of the episode with limited low budget animation.\u00a0 Then you play a short shooter stage but sometimes get interrupted by an animated boss intro.\u00a0 After defeating the boss, you\u2019ll view a fake toy commercial and then go onto the next area and beat a boss.\u00a0 Then you view a conclusion and a preview of the next episode.\u00a0 There are 9 main stages and all, but supposedly there are branching pathways and multiple endings, too.\u00a0 I really like how they committed to the bit of making this feel like an old school giant robot anime.\u00a0 I cracked up when I first saw the toy commercials.\u00a0 And there are a LOT of anime cutscenes here.\u00a0 I read the original PlayStation version came on four discs!<\/p>\n

Unfortunately the shooting sections just don\u2019t match up with the quality of the anime presentation.\u00a0 You can\u2019t choose what robot form you take, so depending on the episode, you may have to deal with a robot formation you don\u2019t like.\u00a0 There\u2019s one with just a short range punch that is absolutely useless for instance.\u00a0 You can rapid fire a main shot, fire missiles, or charge your shot for a longer beam attack.\u00a0 But if you get hit during the charge, it\u2019ll cancel out.\u00a0 And the problem there is that your giant robot is so big that it\u2019s hard to dodge bullets with that big of a hitbox.\u00a0 You can also turn around to hit enemies from behind, but the turning animation is so slow. There\u2019s also a powerful screen clearing attack you can use when a meter is full.\u00a0 \u00a0You can take multiple hits and have three lives, but you only get three continues and that\u2019s it.\u00a0 I wish the game would give you limitless continues, since you\u2019re really just playing this just to see the spectacle of it all, not the quality of the shooting stages.\u00a0 If it had that, I would\u2019ve probably listed this game on one of the categories of my GOTY blogs.\u00a0 But as it stands, the shooting sections really pull this game down.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Geppy-X is rated T for Teen with ESRB descriptors of Blood, Suggestive Themes, and Violence.\u00a0 I really didn\u2019t notice any blood, and you just shoot giant robots that explode when defeated.\u00a0 Anything else in this game is presented in that campy anime style and I\u2019d be OK with any kid playing this.\u00a0 I grew up with cartoons like this when I was a kid and I turned out OK.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the subtitles and younger gamers may find it too difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even though I was born in the mid to late 70s, I did watch a lot of older anime in the 80s when I was a kid.\u00a0 Shows like Speed Racer, Star Blazers, Voltron, Battletech, and others.\u00a0 But what if you combined the style and animations of these old cartoons and put them in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27058"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27060,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27058\/revisions\/27060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}