i hate the notion that a game being "problematic" makes it bad. It has taboo subject matter and it handles it... fine? Haji is supposed to be a bad person and while making him a pedo was a choice i don't like its only because its completely superfluous and they don't do anything with it which basically just turned any discussion of his actually very interesting character and role he plays into "lol hes a pedo" but a topic can't be handled poorly if it isn't handled at all. Kotoko's story is similarly mixed bc i think the actual substance is there it's just that they make weird creepy panty shot jokes about it. but I don't think one bad decision can destroy an entire character, nor can two an entire game because theres an entire other story there that falls well inline with the previous two games. Basically, the story in this one is actually good if you take it on its own merits, it sucks because the gameplay is fucking awful lol
at least Toko Fukawa's an actual character now I guess