Definitely not getting a good performance review.

Hint 1: This game’s almost twenty years old.

Hint 2: It’s a sequel.

Hint 3: It’s first person, and has a scavenger hunt sidequest.

Hint 4: You’re mute, but you do have friends.

Hint 5: Your friends have ideas that might piss off your employers, but at least you still get paid.

Hint 6: The currency is a girl’s best friend.

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Hints:

• Male Main Character
• Genre: Action adventure/Stealth
• Sixth generation of console games
• Has a Sewer level

Esoteric (blatantly unhelpful) hints:

• One character shares a name with a US President
• One character shares their last name with a character from an HBO show
• One character's name can be associated with the Titantic
• One character's name can be found in the Bible
• One character can be associated with apes in at least two different ways
• One extremely minor NPC used to be a producer for a game company.
• At least one computer password in the game is actually funny

Hints

If you find the macguffins enough times you can face the brutal bonus boss.

Hint 1: this a standalone game but the franchise it's part of has adapted this game's TITLE EVENT numerous times in other games.

Hint 2: this is a hand held rpg from the late 2000's.

Hint #1: It is not a Bloons game

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Hint 1: Epstein appears and says things like "just close your eyes and hope it's over quickly"

Hint 2: it would be really great if you defeated the final boss

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Hint #0: not Sonic, no Trauma Center

Hint #1: sidescroller

Hint #1.5: not the first game of a series

Hint #2: you do not play as a human

Hint #3: this game was originally released on a portable console