If you actually played the game I don't think you'd say that. But even if the dev's goals are too lofty (I don't think they are) it shows that it can be done, even in the three chapters completed there are many branching paths. DPC isn't even being asked to do nearly that much.
I've played Heavy Five and I will say this: even if that game is ever finished
and it lives up to Notty's ambition, I would be surprised if the endings will offer more
meaningful variations that BaDIK will.
Even if we assume there will be possible endings for ALL of the HF cast, that's still well short of 200 endings. Notty must be planning on some sort of combinatoric factor to get to 200. In that case, BaDIK has a much larger cast and plenty of side-quests of its own, so my money would be on BaDIK.
Let's say HF goes all in and there are 10 characters with 4 different (independent) endings apiece on top of 5 different end states for the game world, how many of those variations will MATTER? If my hypothetical run winds up focusing on, say, Sarah, just how much am I going to care about exactly which ending the rest of the cast gets?
Unless the endings are intertwined, a lot of the variations are going to be irrelevant to most people. If they are intertwined, then they will almost certainly be narratively incoherent because unless Notty writes 200 different games to complete HF, then the plot will need to be threadbare enough that given events can apply for all those different endings.
(That IMHO, is the big flaw with HF thus far: the MC hasn't done a damn thing 3 episodes in because all the focus has been on cursory interactions and D&G-esque mini-games).
That's my take, anyway. Then again, until both games are finished, all we're doing is arguing over who we'd trust more to deliver a good ending. I've no quarrel with anyone who prefers Notty's style or can't forgive DPC for that damn fire, but nothing I've seen from HF suggests it can offer a roadmap for a story-driven game like BaDIK.
