I would have gotten you that gamesave but I saved over it
. I've been playing Crisis Core steadily the past couple of weeks and I am at the lifestream thing after the whole incident in Nibelheim and the reactor and Cloud stabbing Sephiroth.
I'm hooked to the story, the battle system is neat but I wish you could use the summons/limit breakers at will. However how it is set up now lets you have limit breakers and summons at a much cheaper price and faster pace.
So far what I've noticed, the leveling up of your character is not random, but the leveling up of materia I think is random.
You know the SP (Soldier Points)? it takes 10 of those to spin the roulette each time. So Basically if you have 1000000000000 Soldier Points, it is useless? Since you only need enough to spin the wheel a good amount of times but each battle gives you a crap load. I got 100,000 soldier points from one of the missions - kill 1000 soldiers. It is a waste I guess.
The summons, limits are all random - sometimes you get them, sometimes you don't. The pictures/videos are just memories that help you complete the limit break.
It is weird but it works.