after playing the demo me and my gf are very excited to get it.

Am glad to see the music/rhythm level is popular. I thought it was really good, seems like i'm not the only one. My kids loved playing with me on it too. It's really clever that you jump/attack on the drum beat.

It was a very good demo, if the rest of the 12-15 hour campaign is that good then we're in for a treat.

my first play through of the game, I thought it was ok but my second run of the game was actually more fun! I don't know why though maybe I wasn't in the right mood when I played it the first time

I didn't much like the touch screen level either at first.  Now that I've run through it a couple of times, I like it a lot better.  It's best to just look at the pad during that entire time.  I had the inclination to look at the TV which made glancing at the pad to cut a rope or pop an idea feel like a distraction.

There's a lot of variety but i feel that the touchscreen parts are the weakest parts. Implemented properly the variety will be a good thing, i just hope Ubi don't try too hard and make the touchscreen parts feel like they are tacked on for the sake of it.

I played the whole demo in 2 player mode and the touch screen level was hands down by far the most fun. I don't really like the NSMB style "co-op" where multiple people just essentially play the same stage alongside each other. That's not really co-op imho. The different tasks for everybody make the game feel more like you accomplish something together instead of getting in each others way.