The rad Teeny Titans is getting a sequel next month with Teen Titans GO Figure, also known as Teeny Titans 2. Convoluted name aside, we now know when the game?s releasing, and I?ve gotten to play some of this new figure-battling-and-collecting game, and you ought to be excited. Grumpyface and Cartoon Network have gone with a ?if it ain?t broke, don?t fix it? attitude to the game. The core gameplay systems are very similar, to where I hadn?t played the original in a while and I very quickly was right at home with the game. But the gameplay is still really fun, and there are some cool new elements to the game.

The figure-buying system is the same as before, with the amusing ability to just throw away figures or peek behind them while in the stores. One big new element to the game is that you can now choose your playable character from the five Teen Titans: Robin, Starfire, Raven, Cyborg, and Beast Boy. If you love Starfire?s speech idiosyncrasies (I too like to refer to random objects with the definitive case), then you might want to pick her instead of Robin, who was the star of the first game. Your ultimate goal is still very Pokemon-esque where you gotta get all the figures, with some rarer than others. Many of the figures return, but there are plenty of new ones, and new variants of the originals. For example, all of the Teen Titans have Radical, 1980s-inspired versions of their characters that you can find and collect. The game still has you deploy three heroes in...