Yeah, it's the Wario Land 4 version of the character. Honestly, I'm impressed. Would be neat to make a ROM hack based on this moveset whenever it gets released:
Seems another Wario soundtrack has hit the app now! What's more, it's a Wario Land one too:
What do you think? I'm honestly just happy this series is getting attention from Nintendo again...
Almost all of the enemies from Wario World are my favorites. Though out of all of them, my favorites are the mirror wizards from Mirror Mansion. I've always been a fan of that kind of mask, and the purple color scheme is great too.
Outside of...
... I am the singular vote for the Black Jewel.
Honestly if anyone returned it'd be neat, just to see their Mario Wiki article listing "latest appearance" as something other than "their debut game" or "Smash Ultimate Spirit cameo"
That's actually a way better way to look at it. I guess instead you can look at Wario World as the last Wario game that was faithful. It was rude, raunchy and weird, where Shake It was much more fluffy.
Though Master of Disguise also had...
Each subsequent Wario platformer (1994-2004) kept pushing the envelope with the weirdness and crudeness. In a way, Wario World is the grand finale and peak of how weird a Wario game's atmosphere could get.