they are a lot harder. it took me a good hour to figure out one of the puzzles. everytime I hit a switch to release the harpoon hanging on the wall, the clasps that held the harpoon gun would reset before I could run over there and grab the thing.
then I remembered I had another character in the room beside me.
I just put Billy next to the harpoon gun, Rebecca next to the switch, hit the switch with Rebecca, and then (quickly) switched to Billy and grabbed the gun