So I was playing this game back when it first came out stopped around episode 3 and just came back to it. I'm really loving it so far but I can't help but feel that the popularity point system is honestly quite useless and is just there to inhibit the flow. I'm not sure to what point it actually serves then to just make you rewatch past missions and drag on the experience. Does anyone else know of their purpose? I was hoping that if I leveled it up I might get more money and I'm still in the process of increasing it but I've seen no mention of any benefit to increasing it. So is it truly actually there just to slow the experience or do you actually get financial gains?