Nobel, Jobs and Golden Sun

So a Swede got the Nobel prize in literature? More than 30 years ago since last time... damn, then my shot at it is gone. Leaves the peace price, but who wants that when it's given in Oslo, I want to be in Stockholm. And I have a hard time believing that the norwegians would grant a swede the peace prize, you know... because the Union. And then Steve Jobs is dead. A pity, I really liked the products his company makes and if I had the money (or a job overall) I would gladly update my computer to a Mac. Too young at only 56 to leave as well, he will be missed. And that was the contemporary news, now lets talk about Golden Sun instead *NOOOOO* What?

It's just one thing that bugs me when I look at the maps of the different games. In the original games, the Angara continent looked like this:

The Angara continent is the northern part over the almost African-looking part. Maybe not the best, but you have a fair decent look on the world. Now, look at this map from the latest game:

A bit different, but due to the event in the end of the second game it has at least some explanation for why it looks different, but it still doesn't make that much sense. There is three places that appears again from the old games, Mt. Aleph, Kolima and Champa. Kolima isn't that easy since in-game it's explained it moved itself so that leaves two points to look at. Mt. Aleph looks about right in the mountains and forest compared on both maps, but Champa seemed to have moved to the west which is kinda hard to explain. Maybe if earth had risen from the west out of the ocean it might have been logical, but that the continent grew inside itself and still had ruins being functional stretching over most of the world isn't that plausible. But then again it might have been magic.

With that out of the way, another thing that bugs me, and I guess some others as well, is the lack of familiar places. As I mentioned, three places is visited and another one is seen, but never visited (Mercury Lighthouse) and one is often mentioned but not even seen (Bilibin). But where is Vault, Xian and Altin? Where is Lama and Fuchin Temple? And even harder to explain, where is the Lamakan Desert and Mogall Forest? Well, the last two might not be that hard to explain with the change of environment, but still, the forest is pretty much in the same spot as Sana, the equivalent of the Chinese empire. What did they do, cut down the magical forest? It's didn't work out all to well for the people in Kolima. It would have been nice to see or hear what happened to those places since we actually travel around in the vicinity. Also why don't we get any cameos from the person living in that area (Feizhi, Hsu and Master Feh). Have they moved? Are they dead? Feizhi crossed the mountains to cameo in the second game, why noting similar here? Hmm, when I think about I actually thought it would be more people with a portrait, but the only other one you encounter that isn't in the third game is Hama and she is probably in Contigo so I probably can't really complain. But it would be nice if these people showed up in the fourth installment (that we all hope will become reality really soon right?).