This may be controversial, but I actually quite like this game! I haven’t played the other games in the Wii Play series, but the mini games offered here are very unique and have the right amount of depth, most of the time. Some of the spectacle here is really amusing, like seeing yourself tower ice cream up so high that it reaches space, or the fun game of hole-in-the-wall as your mii does wacky positions falling through and endless tube. As a mini game collection, it was never going to fare amazingly, but for what it is, I think it’s pretty great.

I didn't have this when it came out for some reason, I don't know why the hell it took me 12 YEARS to get to it, being a die hard fan of the Wii series games.
The wait was worth it to me, I think this is a great set of minigames, two of these are sequels to games from Wii Play (Pose Mii Plus, Trigger Twist) but all new ideas outside of those. Two of these games are very obviously based on Game & Watch games which I find very cool as im a big Game & Watch fan, Veggie Guardin' (great name, btw) being based on Vermin and Treasure Twirl being based on Octopus. I loved both of these but I liked Veggie Guardin' the most out of those two. The new games are great for the most part, Skip Skimmer might be one of my favorite minigames out of the whole series, alongside Island Flyover from Sports Resort. That games visual aesthstic is god tier, i love how it looks so much, its just skipping stones, but the visuals and little easter eggs really add a lot for me. The big highlight here imo is Spooky Search, i was apalled at how creative they were with the motion plus feature with that one, ive never played a wii game that did something like that.
However, a few of these are kinda meh, I personally did not enjoy Jump Park like, at all, i didnt like literally anything about that minigame, it isnt shit but i cant say i liked it. The big issue, is that the last two games (Flutter Fly and Star Shuttle) control SO horribly to the point where i cant find any fun in them at all.
Overall, i'm not sure if this is objectively better than the first game or not, i think this one REALLY ups the creativity but the first game is a bit more fun depending on what minigame you're playing. This game is great though, would reccomend.
Side note, I think they shouldve just...tacked on the first game to this one, honestly, like that weird version of Wii Sports Resort that has Wii Sports on the same disc, except all copies come with the first game aswell.

One of the few 'Wii series' games I didn't have as a kid, experiencing Wii Play: Motion was both an uncannily familiar and decidedly fresh experience. Motion well expands upon the ideas of its predecessor in a package that not only feels fuller but a lot more modern, certainly the Resort to its Wii Sports.

With a veritable who's-who of hit-or-miss second string Nintendo (or Nintendo-adjacent) teams taking the collaborative helm of the project, the quality of Motion feels like a larger spread than Wii Play. Any mini-games developed by Good-Feel and Vanpool rock. Everything else is of a variable degree of success.

The best activities in Motion are more robust than anything in Wii Play (sometimes iterating on and expanding past Wii Play attractions), but many others feel either too fickle in their MotionPlus control or too gimmicky in their conecpt.