It's even more probable when you consider the exploration and puzzle aspects of those games. Lots of dawdling and so opportunities to show funny bits of Wario's personality (WL4 does that really well). Then Wario already had a strong persona in...
That's true, though it would have been pretty easy to make Wario a lot smaller and have him a similar size to Mario in either Super Mario Land 1, 2 or SMB Deluxe. Those games all had enemies that were generally as big or bigger than the main...
A while ago, I saw an interesting description of Wario's abilities in the Wario Land games. That being, that he's basically like a playable boss character rather than a traditional platformer protagonist. That not only is he a villain or...
It's even more probable when you consider the exploration and puzzle aspects of those games. Lots of dawdling and so opportunities to show funny bits of Wario's personality (WL4 does that really well). Then Wario already had a strong persona in...