Free-falling!

Well I completed the first area of Zack & Wiki today, and it's a surprisingly smart and fun game!

none of the puzzles were stupid or contrived, and only times I got stuck was when I didn't give the game enough credit (like having the big monkey afraid of fire).

One example of how complex the puzzles are is on the last stage I had to do the following in order:
-Get the saw
-Anger the boss monkey twice so he drops a pot on the wind stone
-Saw the wooden bars
-Get one of the wooden bars
-Light the wood on fire to make a torch
-Chase the monkey away with the torch
-Place the torch near the puzzle
-Solve the puzzle to flood the next area
-Swim to the next area and get an umbrella
-Climb to the top of the hill and look at the rope
-Flip the umbrella over to hook the handle on the rope
-Open the chest which causes the monkey to smash the bridge your on
-Grab the umbrella in mid air
-Flip the umbrella the right way around
-Hit the 2 button on the remote to open the umbrella and land safely.

That puzzle wasn't even the hardest, it was only a 6 of 10 difficulty and that's not even the only way to solve it. For example, I found that I could put the pot on the wind stone myself by sneaking past the monkey.

Should be interesting to see what area 2 holds tomorrow.