‘Resident Evil 4 Remake’ Spinel trading guide
The reviews — including our own — are in, and Resident Evil 4 Remake is already one of the most popular games of 2023.
The spectacular remake levels up everything that made the original great, and injects new elements, enemies, and challenges to keep even veteran players guessing. It ramps up the horror, evens out the writing, and maintains an overarching “fun” factor that’s been stealing sleep from gamers for nearly a week now.
As a wave of fresh Resident Evil fans get their hands on the game, they’re discovering all the minor changes and significant tweaks made to the original. Thankfully, the Merchant is still a staple of Leon’s journey through rural Spain, but the way he does business is slightly altered. Don’t worry, he’ll still buy your items at a high price, but a fresh option to trade is stumping some gamers. It might not seem overly worthwhile — as you snatch up pesetas to spend on upgrades and fresh items — but clever planning could see the Merchant’s Spinel trading section save your skin in more than one way.
The concept behind the Merchant’s new trading option is perfectly straightforward. Leon’s cloaked, mysterious tagalong now offers up a fresh section, merely titled “Trade,” which provides a range of items available for trade. Rather than sell those shiny Spinels, you collect them — largely as payment for completed tasks — and then offload them in trade for something much more valuable.
On my first playthrough, I chose to save up my first few rounds of Spinels as a way to obtain the Punisher early on. From time to time, I shaved away at my backlog to buy up a yellow herb or some extra gunpowder for crafting, but my toxic gamer tendencies largely saw me hanging onto each new batch of Spinels just in case
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