A friend just showed me this short video of Daisy quotes from Super Mario Strikers animated to alternative scenarios...

...and it got me thinking: this could actually make a neat game if expanded upon sufficiently! I mean think about it: Rosalina has her backstory in Super Mario Galaxy and Peach has seen at least some character development over the course of the Mario RPGs and even had one whole game that at least technically was her own, but yet the Mario princess with the most personality...the most impulsive (in complete and utter contrast to yours truly, you've doubtless noticed by now!! ) and frankly coolest one, Daisy...remains the one we know the least about. She's still just that tomboyish princess who Mario rescued from aliens that one time (and whom no one has dared attempt to kidnap since, notably). She seems like someone who'd be really fun to hang with! Why not make a game out of that premise?

A Month in the Life of Daisy, or something of that nature, could be a story-driven adventure game where you either play as Daisy herself and/or or follow her casual exploits and hijinks through the eyes of a rotation of her friends from the Mario universe: perhaps Peach for a while, then Pauline, then Rosalina, then Luigi, then Mario, then Daisy as she sees herself. Something like that. It could be just the right combination of cute, funny, awesome, and interesting! Plus Nintendo doesn't do enough proper narrative games, so this would be a good excuse.

Whatcha think?

I wouldn't mind seeing NIntendo try a different type of game with Daisy as the main character, kind of like how they experimented with Wario. Maybe Daisy could do a tower defense game or something. Build towers to defend the Mushroom Kingdom.

Not only has Nintendo experimented with Wario in terms of genre, but also with Luigi (the Luigi's Mansion franchise) and Toad (Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker) as well. Given this history, I think there's lots of room for experimentation with various Mario franchise characters!

Daisy is the Princess of Sarasaland, however, not the Mushroom Kingdom. Peach is the Mushroom Kingdom's princess.

I'd like for Nintendo to make another Peach-centered game, but I'd much prefer it be built off the template from Super Mario Odyssey's conclusion where we see her going off on an adventure of her own rather than being a sequel to Super Princess Peach, which I found to be an annoying and deeply un-fun game.

That said though, I'm more interested in both Daisy and Rosalina as characters than Peach. Peach is kinda my least favorite of the Mario princesses.

Lol, I still have Tatanga Invades Earth too, along with a handful of the other Super Mario comics from 1990-91! Apparently Laura Hitchcock is still a comic book editor today, as she's also credited with far more recent, apparently similar comic books based on Moana and Aquaman and such.

An alternative telling of the Super Mario Land storyline! Your idea sounds interesting! However, personally I don't actually much care for Daisy's daintier portrayal in Tatanga Invades Earth and would rather have a game where she retains her punchier modern personality. I'd specifically like to see what her relationship is to other characters in the Mario universe. How does Daisy get along with Peach? Are she and Luigi actually an item as the rumors suggest, and how does that work? Also, what is Sarasaland like on an ordinary day without aliens overrunning it? These are my goofy curiosities.

To answer your query, it's pretty self-evident that they have been...or at least had been...with all the kisses that Mario has gotten from Peach over the years and everything. However, at the Super Mario Odyssey, [SPOILERS!] he got a little too pushy and had his proposal rebuffed. Last we saw of Peach after the formal conclusion of Odyssey was her vacationing through the various liberated kingdoms, having a sort of adventure of her own, appropriately Barbie style. [/SPOILERS] So that's where we are.

Yeah, I don't exactly count on Nintendo doing anything like this with Daisy. I was just throwing out a thought in the OP and seeing if there was any interest.

I genuinely want a Wario & Waluigi RPG where they try to pull off a scam to get rich quickly, "The Producers" style.

*snickers*

That would be cute.

Nearest I can tell, the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie was actually the origin of the idea of Daisy and Luigi being a couple and also the origin of her reconception as a tomboyish character (she's an archeologist in the movie). Needless to say, the infamous (but hilariously so, IMO) movie is completely non-canonical (Daisy in that film is obviously supposed to be Princess Toadstool (as Peach was known back then), being as she's blonde and turns out to be the princess of the Mushroom Kingdom and everything, but was renamed Daisy because the filmmakers found that would be a more credible name to have in Brooklyn), but Nintendo gave the relationship between Luigi and Daisy in that film some official credence in the official character description in Mario Party 4 instruction by saying that they're "rumored" to be a couple, and also by then had made Daisy a punchier character. The Mario Party 4 character bios also claim that Waluigi also is also attracted to Daisy, to the latter's annoyance.

Concerning play mechanics, not really to tell you the truth. I was just thinking this was a fun idea that will never be realized anyway, so the details don't matter. However, I imagine Daisy as a sort of Kaguya or Jasmine type princess, but to a qualitatively greater degree: a free spirited princess who doesn't really want to be a princess. I can even imagine a Braid-like scenario in which she secretly hired Tatanga to "kidnap" her that one time so she could escape castle life.

It's weird to me that Luigi is saving Mario and not Daisy in the Luigi's Mansion games. They also could of made her playable in the NSMB games in place of a second Toad. If they wanted to they could have used her, which makes me think they don't wanna use her. Possibly because Peach can already fulfill any role Daisy could, be it damsel in distress or female playable character, so Daisy would be redundant. That's just a theory of course.

I don't think it'll ever happen, but I wouldn't be against a Daisy game. There's no way it'd be story driven though, the Mario series ain't about that. Look at Paper Mario which went as far as to allow Peach n Bowser to speak and be relevant throughout the whole game rather than just the beginning and end. Then Miyamoto came and put a stop to that. He wants the series to be unevolving and stagnant, which is fair enough it's his game. I don't think they'll allow Daisy to be anything more than the excitable energetic princess, but I'd love to be wrong.