Firebird - The Unfinished

Beautifully made... if you liked La Peri, you need to see this one.

Probably best known for their puzzle adventure game A Fisherman's Tale, Innerspace studio's earlier work includes two interactive VR dance experiences under the Firebird brand. The first was La Péri which is reviewed here, and the second is The Unfinished which features a story of two sculptors and an incomplete work. This twenty minute ballet spectacle begins after a museum guard completes his security sweep. Statues in the museum annex begin to murmur and then to move. After a time an apparition of the artist comes into focus and begins to tell his tale. You're asked to pick up a hammer and chisel with the goal of 'releasing' an unfinished sculpture from a rough block of marble. The story unfolds for around fifteen minutes - including a change of location - as the experience builds towards a final dramatic ballet sequence. The ballet sequences run for around five minutes of this performance. Excellently presented graphical avatars based on the motion-capture of actual dancers move before you. Combined with a pleasing visual style and graphical effects, the experience is impressive though we're not sure if this needs to be in virtual reality to get the most from it. In La Péri you feel immersed as you're positioned in the middle of the stage and the dancer's moves surround you, but in The Unfinished the dance happens only in front of you and we're not convinced that a high definition TV screen wouldn't work just as well. We also we found the story to be on the weak side and the interactive chiseling sequences to be clumsy and mostly unnecessary. Further, whereas La Péri was built upon on a well regarded ballet composition by Paul Dukas, The Unfinished has no such cultural underpinnings and instead repurposes overly familiar sections of Holst's The Planets suite that feel out of place and a somewhat lazy choice. If dance is your thing then you should absolutely check out both episodes in this Firebird series, though with the understanding that the ballet sequences are brief. Others might want to check them out to satisfy their curiosity, but unfortunately we don't regard The Unfinished as a compelling experience in virtual reality. ✅ Spectacular but brief motion-capture ballet performances. ✅ Pleasing visual style and graphical effects. ❌ Underwhelming story with no cultural underpinnings. ❌ Clumsy interactive elements.

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Even better than first one of the Firebird series: better visuals, less abstract story, slightly longer(but still very short though)

Nice little VR experience. Good orchestra music and dance. It's something a little different. There's some interaction at certain times. Less than 30 mins, but enjoyable.

Wow quel beau tyravail une fois de plus ! Magnifiques chorégraphies, j'ai beaucoup aimé pouvoir sculpter les personnages. Une très belle expérience, merci !

Very enjoyable exsperience as was the Peri, showing what VR can do in this arena.