Heteroxon said:

Well first off,

The instructions are mainly in Japanese.

I'm pretty sure most of us are speaking English here.

Lucky for us, there's a description box below the flash that provides a great English instruction on how to use it.

Second,

It SHOULD be as simple as pressing the 'Play' button,

but it isn't.

And why are you the end-all judge on whether or not it SHOULD be a certain way? Because not everyone agrees with that.

3rd,

The instructions aren't very instructive.

They tell you exactly how to start it.

4th,

This is not AT ALL mobile friendly.

Why should it be? Flash rarely is. Not the artist's fault for not making it compatible with every computer system ever made.

5th,

It plain-on doesn't work for a lot of people,

So if someone is complaining it probably means you have better results than they do,

So you really have no reason to be anal about it,

We do.

If your hardware supports it and you follow instructions, it will work. So no, you don't really have a good reason for it either.

Heteroxon said:

And who's the genius who thought it was a good idea to put a false play button? Like REALLY!?

It's for people who don't read the instructions. Like you, apparently.

(Although for this particular point, the being-in-Japanese thing is valid, sort of - it's still fair for the artist to put their text in their own language, it's not "unfair" to neglect English either.