Bandai Namco has released new details and screenshots of Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization, confirming that Agil and Klein, both former “Sword Art Online” players, will return and join Kirito for his new adventure.

In the “Town of Beginning” where the game begins, players can customize their avatar and prepare themselves for battle. Players can also meet and hire NPCs (with more than 300 available in the game), create special bonds, and offer them equipment. The closer they are to the player, the stronger they will become. Both Agil and Klein fall in this category of NPCs.

Bandai Namco also detailed some of the game’s online elements. Players will be able to enter raids and fight bosses with both NPCs and other players. The company promises a “wider world” in Hollow Realization, inhabited by monsters not yet seen in the series, including “Shadow Demons” and “Skeletons.”

Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization is due out for PlayStation 4 and PS Vita on October 27 in Japan, and this fall in North America and Europe.

View the new screenshots at the gallery, showing the “Castle Dungeon,” “Desert,” and “Valley Bottom” fields, character artwork, and monsters “The Fate Dominator,” “Creasted Beast,” “Shadow Demon,” and “Skeleton.”